From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:03:33 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <15936.9792.971817.964555@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044425034 19801 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 06:03:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gIf2-00059F-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:03:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gInT-0005ta-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:12:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIfi-0000ro-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIfZ-0000qR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIfM-0000Wu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gIfC-0000Bf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15787; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:03:33 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <15936.9792.971817.964555@nick.uklinux.net> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11378 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11378 On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Nick Roberts wrote: > I haven't really followed this thread but the 20 resulting changes to > gdb-ui.el present no problem to me. I have seen a feature of XEmacs that helps > prevent trailing white space: the cursor becomes more narrow when its at the > end of a line. Would it be a good idea for Emacs? We have the trailing-whitespace face to show that instead. It has the advantage of showing junk whitespace regardless of the cursor position. In fact, it shows it _only_ if the cursor is not at the end of the trailing whitespace. But I agree with Stefan: that special cursor shape might be useful for other purposes (although I suspect that the change in the redisplay code he suggests is not a trivial one).