From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles@gnu.org>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how to tell what's in the fringe? (lazy fringe)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <825ED0A1AEA14744A4C75EBC2A0A7AAB@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5377tfu.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> In emacs <21 (again, IIRC), the last column always contained
> either "$", "\", or " " (representing a newline); you could not
> have lines with 80 "content" (non-newline) characters. So you
> basically got 79 generally usable columns, if your window was
> 80 columns wide.
>
> In current emacs, you get precisely the same results if you set
> the fringe style to `right-only', though the terminology has
> changed a bit: The last "column" (the fringe) contains either a
> fringe indicator or nothing, _but_ current emacs also allows
> the " " representing a newline to displayed in the fringe. So
> again, you get 79 generally usable columns if your window is 80
> columns wide.
>
> Thus, despite the new concepts, the amount of usable space is
> the same, when you use only the right fringe.
I see. In effect, with only right fringe, you trade a fringe indicator for the \
(or $, if truncated) that was used before. Thanks for the clear explanation.
Turning off the fringe background helps a bit, but I guess I still prefer the \
or $ to the bold arrows (curled or right) used for this in the fringe.
I don't use truncate much - I admit that $ is about as ugly as the fringe bold
right arrow. But \ is much better than the fringe arrow, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-19 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-18 18:30 how to tell what's in the fringe? (lazy fringe) Drew Adams
2009-06-19 2:45 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-19 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-19 20:52 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-19 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-19 22:24 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-19 22:42 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-06-19 23:29 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-19 23:33 ` Drew Adams
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=825ED0A1AEA14744A4C75EBC2A0A7AAB@us.oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=miles@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.