From: Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 72090@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: the_wurfkreuz@proton.me
Subject: bug#72090: [Improvement] Option for disabling truncation symbols
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 11:23:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmlpmyrb.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3RiHjFEqCjiJd8EJsUI4BZlY9VEM67i-xuaAUDrjT4qjn0qAyewXDOq67YR_MW6hD77byOQpGiygHQvvmZEccIlqVZGqNrMT38peiv0l_BU=@proton.me> (the wurfkreuz via's message of "Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:51:58 +0000")
On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:51:58 +0000 the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> I haven't found a way to disable truncation characters when I'm not using
> line wrapping.
> There is a way to make them appear as empty spaces:
>
> (set-display-table-slot standard-display-table 'truncation ?\ )
>
> However, this isn't a real solution because it still takes up buffer
> space for no benefit.
>
> In some cases, truncation symbols on the left side of the buffer seem
> completely pointless. There's no additional context to be derived from them,
> and they just clutter the buffer.
I don't know if truncation characters can be disabled, but maybe this is
good enough as a workaround:
(set-display-table-slot standard-display-table 'truncation ?\N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE})
Steve Berman
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-13 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-13 8:51 bug#72090: [Improvement] Option for disabling truncation symbols the_wurfkreuz via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-13 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2024-07-13 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-13 9:23 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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