Re: Fill column indicator functionality

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Ok, it is done.

But maybe the "right" to do is to add a special value to the
display-fill-column-indicator var in order to avoid an extra variable
only for this.

Right now it is only t||nil, we can set a value like 'visual right?.

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 03:03:27PM +0200, �scar Fuentes wrote:
>Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
>
>> I am back with this topic waiting for the membership approval I already
>> claimed. In the meantime the changes are available on github if anyone
>> wants to try/test/correct/suggest anything.
>
>To clarify to others, that is https://github.com/Ergus/Emacs on master
>branch.
>
>> I have a design question related to continuation lines.
>>
>> Right now the indicator is show in all the lines including the
>> continuation lines.
>>
>> Conceptually this is not right because a wrapped line is actually a line
>> that already crossed the fill-column, so the question is if I should add
>> an extra if to not print the indicator in continuation lines.
>
>That's interesting. Showing a continous vertical line is aesthetically
>pleasing even when it does not make sense otherwise, but a gap on that
>vertical line also is useful because it makes the continuation lines
>obvious.
>
>I guess the answer here, as often in Emacs, is "make it configurable"
>:-)
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