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Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe
From: |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: |
Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:11:40 +0200 |
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David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
>> I can agree that "[" is a nice visual effect. But logically if we want
>> to distinguish between terminated and unterminated lines it more feels
>> like lower right is "more" terminating than lower left.
>>
>
> Relative, though - how about just a (thick/matching) "|" for
> unterminated?. Then it's "completed" with the horizontal bar of the "L"
> when there's a newline? i.e. an "L" is in turn "more" terminating than
> a "|" :-)
>
> _
> | hello
> this is
> | an example
> ==
> ==
I can see what you mean, but lower right seems more "balanced", more
related to me - and therefor easier to guess. You already have to know
what the symbol is for to guess that a "|" means not closed.
During this discussion I have come to think that guessing is more
important than knowing the exact meaning. I think I have almost never
worried about ending a file with a newline.
_
| hello
this is
_| an example
==
==
> _
> | hello
> this is
> |_ an example
> ==
> ==
- Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/19
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/09/23
- Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe,
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