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Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar? |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:27:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Also, Eclipse allows fringe elements which do not scroll with the
> window contents. This turns out to be pretty handy.
>
> I do not understand what that means.
>
> For instance you could show the user the visible area of the current
> buffer (relative to the size of the whole buffer) as a different
> background color.
>
> That sounds like a scroll bar. We have scroll bars.
But the scroll bar area can't have error markers.
> In Eclipse you can see little blocks in the right-hand fringe
> which represent errors, problems, etc, and you can click them to
> jump to the corresponding point.
>
> I do not understand why you want these not to scroll with the text
> they apply to.
Because then they would be off-screen most of the time. The idea is to
have all errors in the current buffer visibly indicated and quickly
reachable. By distributing them in a scroll-bar like area corresponding
to the whole buffer, that becomes possible.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, (continued)
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, martin rudalics, 2008/01/05
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Nick Roberts, 2008/01/06
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Tom Tromey, 2008/01/06
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/01/06
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Tom Tromey, 2008/01/06
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/07
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/08
- Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar?, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/07