Re: Customizing the fringe bitmaps

[Kevin A. Burton]

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address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
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> However, I still think the idea of being able to edit the fringe bitmaps
> directly in emacs is appealing.  Here is a simple proposal how to extend
> the current image support to allow that:
> 
> The idea is to add support to emacs for a new ascii based image format.
> I envision something like this:
> 
> A b&w image would be a simple text string like this:
>  "BW 8 8\n........\n.****...\n.*..*...\n...  (etc)"
> 
> The header line specifies a black&white image of height 8 and width 8,
> while the remaining (8) lines specifies b/w bitmap.
> 
> It would be easy to enhance this to support color images, e.g.
>  "CLR 16 8 8 \nA=#119944, B=red, C= (etc)\n..AABBC.\n.AABBCC.\n... (etc)"
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Once you add color bitmap support you are duplicating the functionality of XPM.

I would recommend that you check this format out.

Just do a

find /usr -name *.xpm

and view any one of the file.

Very nice format.

Kevin

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