Re: Tick Reduction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:32:19 -0800
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
>  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
>  dgutov@yandex.ru
> 
> BTW, I pulled the master today and noticed something: it is used to be that 
> you can insert a line that stretches across the window by
> 
> (insert (propertize "-" 'display '(space :width text)
>                     'face '(:strike-through t)))
> 
> Which look like this:
> 
> 
> 
> Now the strike through is gone. Could it be related to changes made in this 
> thread?

This still works for me with the current master.  Did you forget to
turn off font-lock-mode, per chance?  When font-lock-mode is ON, you
cannot usefully add any 'face' properties to the text; you need to use
'font-lock-face' instead.