From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chuck Bernard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fringes Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:36:59 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CE4267B.EAFBD38F@lvision.com> References: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F501FB52F7@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021585183 26497 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2002 21:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 178SyN-0006tG-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:39:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Sy0-000711-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:39:20 -0400 Original-Received: from lvision8.logicvision.com ([209.1.81.20] helo=cujo.lvision.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 178Svm-0006nX-00 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 17:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dogbert.lvision.com (root@localhost) by cujo.lvision.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA03968 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from lvision.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogbert.lvision.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA23914 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 14:36:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:310 I am very dissappointed if they can't be disabled. While I am getting use to them they really just waste space for me and don't contain any worthwhile information since we practice the rule of "Never more than 80 columns of text" in our source code. Heck, I don't even use scroll bars so I have turned them off completely since it allows me to do it. I'd like the same for fringes too :-) I'll have a look in the archives. Thanks, //Chuck "Bingham, Jay" wrote: > In Emacs 21.1 and later fringes are narrow bands on both edges of the frame in which are displayed line wrapping information (there may be other information displayed there but I do not know what it would be, I am not a developer of emacs) in the form of curved arrows. From what has been said in this list previously they cannot be disabled. You may want to check the list archives for more specific details.