Re: setnu-mode and Emacs 21.

[Simon Josefsson]

Michael Welsh Duggan <address@hidden> writes:

> Displaying in the Margins
> -------------------------
>
>    A buffer can have blank areas called "display margins" on the left
> and on the right.  Ordinary text never appears in these areas, but you
> can put things into the display margins using the `display' property.

Would it be possible to use _one_ term for the stuff at the side of a
Emacs frame?  Right now I've seen the following terms used (in code,
documentation and on mailing lists):

fringe
bitmap area
flags area
margin
display margins