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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Paragraph styles in doc strings
Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 17:48:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn4fcjwa.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4855db4c-01f7-9eb3-8c80-58c6f0c056b9@cs.ucla.edu>


On 2016-05-09, at 17:10, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On a graphical display it might be nice if Emacs used a half-line to 
> display empty lines, instead of using a full line, so as to waste less 
> screen real estate while still making the *Help* buffer clear. This idea 
> might be useful for *Info* and other buffers too.

Nice idea.  Would setting a font to a smaller one on empty lines do the
trick?

It could be even made into a simple minor mode (perhaps a global one?).
Might be very useful for fitting more code on the screen, especially in
languages whose culture prefers lots of whitespace.

I'd gladly volunteer to write such a mode, if there is any interest.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09 14:57 Paragraph styles in doc strings Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 15:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-09 15:07   ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-11  1:52     ` John Wiegley
2016-05-12 20:37       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-16 20:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-01 23:01           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-06-02  1:18             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-20 19:11               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-06-21  1:18                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-21  3:24                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-05-18  6:05         ` John Wiegley
2016-05-09 16:05   ` Drew Adams
2016-05-09 15:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-09 15:48   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-05-09 16:12     ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-09 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-05-09 15:42   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 15:45 ` Marcin Borkowski

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