From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Showing end of buffer Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:12:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <874quv32ty.fsf@cs.cmu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074294988 30901 80.91.224.253 (16 Jan 2004 23:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 00:16:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhdCS-0001rw-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:16:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhdCR-0003Nv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:16:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhdB7-0005Mc-UW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhdAD-0004v4-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ahd92-0003jA-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [205.201.10.244] (helo=maru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1Ahd8t-0003bs-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from md5i by maru with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Ahd8r-0001G7-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:12:41 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "16 Jan 2004 21:03:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19210 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Miles Bader writes: > >> Karl Eichwalder writes: >> > > In the fringe, the marker could some sort of icon for the first and >> > > last lines, instead of a line before/after them; then it could be big >> > > enough to allow some freedom in design. >> > >> > As long as I didn't reach the start or end of the buffer, I'd like to >> > see a simple up or down arrow. At start or end you can display a >> > horizontal bar. >> >> Something like these (for top; flip vertically for end)? >> >> ## ######## >> #### (not top) ######## (top; a `T' might be prettier, >> ###### ######## but it's easier to confuse with >> ######## # the arrow) >> ## # >> ## # >> >> [I think the current symbols are 8x8 pixels monochrome, so there's not >> much room] >> > > I just installed patches to CVS emacs to enable this behaviour. Try > > (setq default-indicate-buffer-boundaries t) > > I have updated the w32 and mac code to support this as well, but > I cannot test it... I'd just like to say that I *really* like this behavior. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@cs.cmu.edu)