From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Showing end of buffer Date: 21 Jan 2004 05:25:59 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ptdfbrgu.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074661890 7014 80.91.224.253 (21 Jan 2004 05:11:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai Grossjohann , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 06:11:22 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 1AjAeA-000537-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:11:22 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjAeA-0004ng-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:11:22 +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 1AjAdC-0005lB-Tb for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjAd3-0005iB-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjAcR-0005Wc-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.80.157.142] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AjA8E-0004c3-Qy; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0L4Q7gk010732 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:26:07 +0100 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i0L4Q04o010728; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:26:00 +0100 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:19382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19382 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > I makes sense to put the beginning indicator on the left and the end > > indicator on the right, in a way. But somehow I expected both to be > > on the left. > > > > That's what I would expect, too. Lines don't necessarily come near > > the right margin, so the indicator in the right margin can be far > > away from the text. They should all be on the left. > > But there may be a continuation glyph there if the last line is a > continuation of the previous line. > > Where should the up and down arrows go? In the left fringe as well? I'd put them in the left with one exception: if the last line is not ended with a linefeed, put it in the right. Even though what to do if the last line has 80 characters without a linefeed? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum