Re: Customizing the fringe bitmaps

[Kevin A. Burton]

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"Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden> writes:

> I would like to volounteer to write the code to make the fringe bitmaps
> customizable.

+1... sweet.

Could I put multiple bitmaps on the same fringe on the same line?

Seems like this would work well for vertical line numbering.

> However, I don't know what the interface to this feature should be.
> 
> One option is to load the bitmap from a (pbm) file.
> 
> Another option would be to let the user draw the bitmap like this:
> 
> (set-fringe-bitmap 'overlay-arrow 
>                  '("*        "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*        "))
> 
> Personally, I like the second option as it is fully self-contained.
> 
> The major problem with this approach is that it isn't obvious (to me) how to
> do this through Customize.

The XPM format seems like it would be nice for this.

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