From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: visual line mode
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:49:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3t44j81.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJELnLFAsV4F=+MQt8oyYWCaVh6Bnxpv2kUscB3tuXyS3izwvQ@mail.gmail.com
>> What fringe indicators? You mean, if visual-line-fringe-indicators
>> are customized?
> Why does visual-line-mode turn off fringe indicators by default?
Good, question, I can't remember the answer, tho.
I can guess at a few possibilities:
- "knee-jerk" reaction along the lines of "so you want word wrapping
like the other crap editors? well, I'll give you just that, then".
I don't think we were so thoughtless, but there might have been
the reasoning that "since other word-wrapping editors don't show
indicators, it should be OK if we do the same".
- if you have "one logical line per paragraph", then your fringes would
be pretty much full of indicators everywhere, except at paragraph
boundaries, which ends up being neither pretty nor convenient.
For the "most lines are long" case mentioned in point 2, a better
approach would be to put a fringe indicator only at
paragraph boundaries.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-29 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-12 6:56 visual line mode drain
2012-10-12 8:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-12 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 8:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-12 10:35 ` drain
2012-10-12 10:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-12 10:48 ` drain
2012-10-12 11:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-12 11:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-12 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-28 15:06 ` Matt McClure
2012-11-28 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-29 3:34 ` Matt McClure
2012-11-29 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-01 3:28 ` Matt McClure
2012-10-12 15:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-12 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 15:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-12 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 22:06 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-13 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-13 21:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-14 1:56 ` Bob Proulx
2012-10-14 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-16 18:38 ` drain
2012-10-12 15:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-12 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 21:40 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-13 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-13 15:26 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-10-13 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-12 11:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-12 11:46 ` drain
2012-10-12 13:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-12 14:32 ` drain
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