Re: default-indicate-buffer-boundaries

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     Note that the indicate-buffer-boundaries glyph overrides the
>     continuation glyph that would normally appear in the left margin.
>     The right continuation glyph is still visible.  But do `M-0 C-l'
>     and it is out of view, leaving no indication that this is a
>     continuation line.
>
>     Now do `M-x toggle-truncate-lines' (with point still at the end of the
>     long line).  Now all indicate-buffer-boundaries glyphs are overridden
>     by the truncation arrows.
>
> These are pretty serious problems.
>
> I am not willing to abandon such a nice feature without a fight!  We
> do not need to fix this feature before the release, but does anyone
> have an idea for how to fix it?

>
> In the continuation case, we could solve the problem for the
> end-of-buffer indicator by putting it on the right.  But that won't
> help in the truncation case.

We could put the indicator on the next line in those case.

Or we could combine those two bitmaps (there is already code
which allows two bitmaps to be shown at the same time, like
a breakpoint icon and the overlay arrow.)

I will try to figure out what to do.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk