Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 
>> I can agree that "[" is a nice visual effect. But logically if we want
>> to distinguish between terminated and unterminated lines it more feels
>> like lower right is "more" terminating than lower left.
>>
> 
> Relative, though - how about just a (thick/matching) "|" for
> unterminated?. Then it's "completed" with the horizontal bar of the "L"
> when there's a newline?  i.e. an "L" is in turn "more" terminating than
> a "|" :-)
> 
>  _
> |  hello
>    this is
> |  an example
> ==
> ==

I can see what you mean, but lower right seems more "balanced", more
related to me - and therefor easier to guess. You already have to know
what the symbol is for to guess that a "|" means not closed.

During this discussion I have come to think that guessing is more
important than knowing the exact meaning. I think I have almost never
worried about ending a file with a newline.

 _
|   hello
    this is
 _| an example
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>  _
> |  hello
>    this is
> |_ an example
> ==
> ==