address@hidden: Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs)]

[Richard Stallman]

What would it take to treat fringes like part of the window text under
X?  That way we could avoid these empty continuation lines, and we
could also more easily put the fringes inside the display margins
which seems to be a more logical place for them.

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From: Alveola Petrofsky <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs)
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Date: 22 Jan 2002 15:51:55 -0800

address@hidden (Andreas Schwab) writes:

> Alveola Petrofsky <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> |> at least version 18, emacs has put the cursor in that column if you
> |> are at the end of a line whose display width is equal to the width of
> |> the rest of the window.  The line is not continued.  This is a special
> |> case: for other line lengths, shorter or longer, the cursor is not
> |> placed in the continuation mark column for any of the line's buffer
> |> postions.
> 
> It's the same on X, except that now we have the fringes, no
> continuation/truncation marker is put in the last column of the text
> area any more.

Try this:

  emacs-21 -q
  M-80 x RET M-80 x RET

I now see two rows of screen space wasted on empty continuation lines.
I don't believe emacs-20 ever displayed empty continuation lines.

These rows do not display any text.  They are being used solely to
have a place to put the cursor when point is at the end of the line.
They wouldn't be wasted if emacs-21 were able to put the cursor in the
same horizontal location that it puts continuation marks.  All
previous versions of emacs were able to put the cursor in the same
horizontal location that they put continuation marks.

- -al

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