Re: Customize fringe widths

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Actually, I don't see a great need to support the text-mode truncation
>     glyphs on X.
> 
> Are you suggesting that an X-frame with no fringes should not indicate
> truncation or continuation at all?  That would be simpler, I agree.
> Is it what users want when they eliminate the fringes?

IIRC, at least some of the users indicated that they don't see the
glyphs in the fringe as useful, and that that's why they wanted to
turn the fringe off.