Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps

[Miles Bader]

On 6/22/05, Robert J. Chassell <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not sure whether my preferences comes from a liking for
> symmetrical images, such as top_left_angle_bits, or my high resolution
> display, or something else.  The suggested continuation_bits map is
> much too `thin' or `light' on my screen.

I did some more testing, and it became pretty clear that which style
("light" or "heavy") looks better depends strongly on the font
(smaller fonts go better with "light", but the thin bitmaps can start
looking a bit lost with large fonts), background color (on a dark
background, the white bitmaps stand out much more, which makes the
"heavy" bitmaps look even heavier), and probably display type (I use
an LCD display which is very good at showing single-pixel lines
precisely).

So I dunno.  Maybe it would make sense to have a few alternate sets of
bitmaps packaged with emacs, similar to Gnome's icon-themes?

[BTW I still think the default overlay-arrow (aka "the blob") is
completely awful, regardless of context...]

-Miles
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