From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: longlines-show-hard-newlines - should not the default be t?
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:37:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85myld5n9u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485E9AB0.2090408@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:32:16 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> We already made the default scroll bar placement to the left because
>> texts and text work tends to be left-justified.
>
> Not on w32 I think.
I would not know.
>> Yes, it is contrary to the normal expectations, but as long as it has
>> a noticeable benefit, that has not kept us from improving Emacs.
>
> But this would also deviate from for example how OpenOffice shows
> similar things.
>
> Though I can't make up my mind. More trying to collect the arguments.
A wrap mark is fine at the right margin: there will be text close to it
(as long as the words are not all too long). A hard LF mark, in
contrast, seems better to the left if one want to make the visual
connection.
That's how it appears to me.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 0:55 longlines-show-hard-newlines - should not the default be t? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 1:09 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 1:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 1:37 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 1:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 1:35 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-22 10:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 12:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 12:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 18:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-22 18:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 18:26 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-22 18:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 18:37 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-06-22 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 21:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 21:29 ` Drew Adams
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