From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Paragraph styles in doc strings Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 17:48:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87bn4fcjwa.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <878tzjjn3w.fsf@gnus.org> <4855db4c-01f7-9eb3-8c80-58c6f0c056b9@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462810301 1737 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2016 16:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 18:11:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aznQZ-0008Ms-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 17:48:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aznQX-0002wi-Qe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 11:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aznQT-0002rU-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 11:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aznQN-0002af-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 11:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:59539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aznQM-0002aZ-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 11:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1B3B51A9A; Mon, 9 May 2016 17:48:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Bb2DVtIv27q9; Mon, 9 May 2016 17:48:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (98-171.echostar.pl [213.156.98.171]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 623B2B51A97; Mon, 9 May 2016 17:48:21 +0200 (CEST) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.9 In-reply-to: <4855db4c-01f7-9eb3-8c80-58c6f0c056b9@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203720 Archived-At: On 2016-05-09, at 17:10, Paul Eggert wrote: > On a graphical display it might be nice if Emacs used a half-line to > display empty lines, instead of using a full line, so as to waste less > screen real estate while still making the *Help* buffer clear. This idea > might be useful for *Info* and other buffers too. Nice idea. Would setting a font to a smaller one on empty lines do the trick? It could be even made into a simple minor mode (perhaps a global one?). Might be very useful for fitting more code on the screen, especially in languages whose culture prefers lots of whitespace. I'd gladly volunteer to write such a mode, if there is any interest. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University