Re: longlines-show-hard-newlines - should not the default be t?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > > Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes:
> > >
> > >  > Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > >
> > >  > > add a paragraph-icon in the fringe of the few lines that do not wrap.
> > >  >  > But will it not be much harder to see to which line the fringe
> > > belongs?
> > >
> > > That's why when God created Fringes, Right *and* Left did He create
> > > them.  Put it in the left fringe (except in Hebrew and Arabic, of
> > > course!)
> > Yes! But creation is not finished and that is why he gave us the
> > ability to choose, create. And actually I think using the left fringe
> > for this would be a mistake. I think most human beeings expect to find
> > line feeds to the right. Even though that is a human mistake it would
> > be another not to take this into account.
>
> We already made the default scroll bar placement to the left because
> texts and text work tends to be left-justified.

Not on w32 I think.

> Yes, it is contrary to
> the normal expectations, but as long as it has a noticeable benefit,
> that has not kept us from improving Emacs.

But this would also deviate from for example how OpenOffice shows 
similar things.

Though I can't make up my mind. More trying to collect the arguments.