bug#72090: [Improvement] Option for disabling truncation symbols

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> tags 72090 notabug
> thanks
>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:51:58 +0000
>> From:  the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> I haven't found a way to disable truncation characters when I'm not using
>> line wrapping.
>
> What do you mean by "disable"?  If you mean force Emacs not to show
> any glyph there, then there's no way of disabling that completely.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, and that's by design.
>
>> 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 agree that they are clutter.  They serve as a clear indication
> that the line was truncated.  Since Emacs supports a feature whereby
> only the current line is hscrolled, this indication is important.
>
> I'm not interested in adding a feature that would disable these glyphs
> on TTY frames.  (On GUI frames, Emacs does not show these glyphs by
> default, and the continuation/truncation indications are shown on the
> fringes.)

I'm therefore closing this bug report.