Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Here are some more alternate bitmaps:
>
> ;; A sharper, more obviously arrow-like overlay arrow.
> ;; I admit this resembles something from a bad ms-windows debugger,
> ;; but at least it looks like an arrow rather than a blob (which is
> ;; what the default overlay-arrow looks like).
> (define-fringe-bitmap 'overlay-arrow [16 24 252 254 252 24 16] nil nil 
> 'center)

I like the old blob better.
>
> ;; Lighter-weight line-truncation indicators (my clever idea was to
> ;; use a dotted arrow-shaft to sort of add the flavor of an ellipses
> ;; to them).
> (define-fringe-bitmap 'right-truncation [4 2 169 2 4] nil 11 'center)
> (define-fringe-bitmap 'left-truncation [32 64 149 64 32] nil nil 'center)

Nice idea, but the bitmaps are too light for my taste.

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