thomassc added a comment.
I guess the previous situation is still more practical, since by temporarily adding a newline there below the oversized line, it is at least possible to edit that line. With the line cut off, it is impossible to edit. Also, in cases where a line is only slightly oversized (as with the emoji example), with the overpainting it might look just fine, whereas with the cutoff it won't look fine. FYI, below is a screenshot of how the new example looks on my system ((K)ubuntu 14.04, Monospace font, normal style, size 9, which I believe is the default), after applying the line height fix: it looks perfectly fine. F6649169: bug_404713_monospace_ubuntu.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6649169> REPOSITORY R39 KTextEditor REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D19283 To: cullmann, dhaumann Cc: rjvbb, loh.tar, thomassc, kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, domson, michaelh, ngraham, bruns, demsking, cullmann, sars, dhaumann