From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 8569@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:43:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zkna6zlm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB4BA4BADB014BB1BD4B55EEDF9267F5@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:56:51 -0700
>
> The overlay arrow is not something used all over the place in Emacs code
> and doc. We should change the name now to avoid this confusion.
I'm afraid it's way too late. Most of these variables (the first two)
exist since 1988, when this feature was first introduced into Emacs.
Of course, back then we didn't have the fringes, so the arrow was
displayed like it is now on text terminals (try "emacs -nw").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 21:56 bug#8569: 24.0.50; overlay arrow Drew Adams
2011-04-28 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-28 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-28 18:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-15 13:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15 14:07 ` Drew Adams
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