Re: Showing end of buffer

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:
> > > In the fringe, the marker could some sort of icon for the first and
> > > last lines, instead of a line before/after them; then it could be big
> > > enough to allow some freedom in design.
> >
> > As long as I didn't reach the start or end of the buffer, I'd like to
> > see a simple up or down arrow.  At start or end you can display a
> > horizontal bar.
> 
> Something like these (for top; flip vertically for end)?
> 
>        ##                    ########
>       ####    (not top)      ########   (top; a `T' might be prettier,
>      ######                  ########    but it's easier to confuse with
>     ########                 #           the arrow)
>        ##                    #
>        ##                    #
> 
> [I think the current symbols are 8x8 pixels monochrome, so there's not
> much room]
> 

I just installed patches to CVS emacs to enable this behaviour.  Try

        (setq default-indicate-buffer-boundaries t)

I have updated the w32 and mac code to support this as well, but
I cannot test it...

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