From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:42:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119454960 21035 80.91.229.2 (22 Jun 2005 15:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 17:42:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl7MH-0000bI-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl7Sv-0003gu-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl7Ok-0000rR-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl7Oh-0000om-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dl7Oh-0000nN-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dl7Qi-000473-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dl7MW-0006qA-FD; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:42:00 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:51:09 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39308 A related issue is the name of the bitmaps -- currently the names reflect the physical appearance of the default bitmaps, but I think it would be better if the names reflected their logical use. If there is a fixed correspondence between uses and names, which appears to be the case, then I agree with you. Also, the doc string of define-fringe-bitmap ought to list these standard names, because there is no other doc string to find them in. However, I think it would be cleaner to keep the names as they are, referring to the bitmap appearance, and add a layer where you specify which bitmap to use for each standard purpose. So if you want to use a little "EOB" for the end of the buffer, you'd put that in a bitmap named little-eob, then specify to use little-eob for end of buffer. indicate-buffer-boundaries would be the place to specify this.