From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:47:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D939B4.1040505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D938E0.3010001@harpegolden.net>
David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
>> If the last line has an ending newline char then place the fringe symbol
>> one line down (and let it be the same symbol). What about that?
>>
>>
> That would make the normal case where there is a terminating newline
> present*, kind of ugly IMO. I'd agree that the upper right symbol is
> a bit wierd, but better use a different symbol when there's no final
> newline, maybe something like |... , not move a line down IMO. i.e. a
> dotted horizontal bar on the "L" because the line hasn't been terminated
> yet.
If we think of the ending newline as terminating the line then maybe
using a lower right corner for that and a lower left corner for the
"unterminated" line would be "more mnemonic".
> * Technically, a bit like C vs. Pascal ';', most programs treat "\n" as
> a line terminator, some as a line separator. Having the fringe marker
> move another line down for a present final newline would make more sense
> if newline were considered a separator, as programs observing that
> convention might think there was a new, empty line if the last line in
> the file had a newline at the end. But AFAIK considering it a
> terminator is far more common than separator.
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-20 1:30 Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 18:03 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-23 18:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 18:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-23 18:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-23 19:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-23 19:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 20:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-23 20:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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