Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps

[Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>]

On Thu, Mar 17 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I agree it's more powerful, but the overlay-arrow shares the same space
>> with the buffer, so it can hide existing information. I like the fact
>> that the fringe is a minimal, non-shared, space.
>
> How would you go about not sharing the screen space with the buffer,
> when the display is a TTY?  What else is there that we could use
> instead?

First/last column reserved when the "tty fringe" is on. On one hand,
potentially more wasteful than the overlay-arrow. On the other, it would
be guaranteed to be a single-character only (and any character there
wouldn't overlap - making it clearly distinct).

I tried to copy/paste some buffers to see how it would "play". As a
first impression, it's a tradeoff I'd take over the overlay-arrow while
debugging for sure.

All modes.. mmh. It looks "different". But if I try to keep only the
right-side fringe, I undoubtedly like it and wouldn't mind the loss of
the column at all times.

I definitely need to try to mock an X11 screenshot to see how _that_
would look as well.

> You mean, when left fringe is enabled, right?
>
> I made the text there more accurate, thanks.

Yes. Thanks, very appreciated!