Re: Customize fringe widths

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     The major effort in this particular case is to enable text-mode
>     continuation and truncation glyphs on X.
> 
> I am surprised that is an effort, but I will take your word for it.

Kim found out that various parts of code in redisplay assume the
fringe is always there, and that the continuation/truncation glyphs
are displayed on it.

> However, the issue here is simply what will control whether to use
> that code.  Should it be the absence of fringes, or some other
> parameter?
> 
> Either way, the work of writing the code to display
> truncation/continuation glyphs under X will be basically the same.  So
> that is not an argument for either choice.

I agree.  And it seems to me that, compared to the work of writing the
code which actually displays those glyphs, the effort needed to add a
simple toggle which controls that is small.