From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:37:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838srhghoc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190825190637.GE4724@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:06:37 +0000)
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:06:37 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > 2- Why insert a prefix string (an "inserted arrow") instead of using
> > a "regular overwriting arrow"?
>
> Because the overwriting arrow would obliterate the first two characters
> of the file name. I actually tried this first, and it wasn't
> satisfactory. This contrasts with another use of the overwriting arrow
> in edebug, where (usually) only WS gets overwritten, and it is important
> not to disturb the visible indentation.
Did you consider to use the display margin instead? You can have an
overlay display in the margin by putting a 'display' property on the
overlay string. The advantage of using the margin is that it will
keep the buffer text aligned.
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[not found] ` <20190825102323.5080620CD5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-08-25 18:39 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Stefan Monnier
2019-08-25 19:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-25 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-26 16:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-26 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 20:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-29 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-31 10:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-31 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-02 19:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-03 2:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-08 9:41 ` Margins example in the Elisp manual. [Was: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling] Alan Mackenzie
2019-09-08 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 19:36 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for compilation-context-lines to eliminate scrolling Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-27 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-27 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-31 11:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-31 12:07 ` martin rudalics
2019-08-31 12:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-25 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-27 19:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-27 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
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