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: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:54 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CE52C06.3BAD5491@lvision.com> References: <3CE2DC6C.B801FBE3@lvision.com> 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 1021652127 1770 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2002 16:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:15:27 +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 178kO7-0000SR-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 18:15:27 +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 178kNz-0002UK-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:15:19 -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 178kLh-0002MC-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:12:57 -0400 Original-Received: from dogbert.lvision.com (root@localhost) by cujo.lvision.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA17341 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:56 -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 JAA04970 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: emacs list 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:317 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:317 Well, I've downloaded the entire archive and I was not able to find any discussions on the fringes with regard to turning them off. Maybe I'm the only person in the world which was annoyed by them when I went from a previous version that didn't have them. At least I'm unique ;-) //Chuck Oliver Scholz wrote: > drguruolai@eth.net (G Anna) writes: > [...] > > Well... I am new to the list as well as to emacs. (Just one year > > old.) So, what are "fringes"? > [...] > > Under X the fringes are the columns on the left and right of a buffer > that display arrows sometimes and that are in a slightly different > color than the background (depending on your customization).