Re: how to tell what's in the fringe? (lazy fringe)

[Miles Bader]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> So far, the only real lack (from foregoing fringe) I'm aware of is the
> one reported in bug #3550, but if additional UI feedback becomes
> available _only_ in the fringe, then perhaps I'll need to
> reconsider. That would be a shame, IMO, but I'm probably a minority of
> one in not being a fan of fringe.

You're certainly not the only one (I don't mind it though).

I don't have any pre-20 emacs here to confirm, but my recollection is
that the old behavior was to actually reserve the final column on the
line for the line truncation/wrapping indicator -- i.e., there _was_ a
kind of fringe before, but only on the right side.

So to emulate the old-style behavior in the current emacs, you could set
the fringe-style to `right-only' (and if seeing the non-indicator fringe
annoys you, remove the background color attribute from the `fringe'
face).

-Miles

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