Re: master d423017cae1: * lisp/vc/vc-dir.el (vc-dir-headers): Try a hints separator line.

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:17:17 +0300
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]>
> 
> On 28/08/2026 14:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Additionally - but that might just be my impression - the line-of-dashes
> >> fallback we use when the feature is not available might be better than
> >> the underline based solution. Because it's spaced evenly on both sides
> >> of the line.
> > Since we've been using underline for quite some time, keeping that as
> > a fallback cannot cause any new problems, can it?
> 
> It's no big deal, but with newlines removed now a line of dashes (the 
> fallback when strikethrough is not available) might look better to the 
> user than the underline.

IMO, the overwhelming consideration here is to be compatible to what
we did before.  If we somehow changed what we do (the "newlines
removal" to which you allude) and that significantly changes the
visuals, I'd argue that we should not make that the default.
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