Re: Vi-like end of buffer in emacs?

[Ian Eure <ian@digg.com>]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 1:22 AM, wlcna wrote:

> "Ian Eure" <ian@digg.com> wrote...
>> You want fringe-mode. M-x customize-group RET fringe RET.
>>
>> It doesn't show actual characters in the buffer like vi does, but  
>> has  a graphic on the edge.
>>
>
> Thanks!  I figured someone probably had an easy fix for this.  I  
> tried it out a bit.  Not as nice as vim, but it's OK.  Not sure why  
> it shows the little marks on the last line of the file when you can  
> type on that line, but it's OK.
>
> I noticed though that I have to have this customize group thing  
> instead of more straightforwardly using lisp to set this in my init  
> file code... (fringe-mode) can be put in my init file, but the only  
> argument is the size of the fringe and no args for fact that I want  
> to show empty lines.
>
> But anyway, customize works, though I avoid that customize stuff,  
> just coming back to emacs now - it irks me and seems opposed to the  
> idea of all the lisp integration...
>
Anything you set via customize can be done with elisp. Open fringe.el  
and look for (defcustom). Alternately, you can pull the definitions  
out of the (custom-set-variables) block and make them regular (setq)  
calls.

Nothing wrong with customize, in my opinion.

  - Ian