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Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs)
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs) |
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25 Jan 2002 09:41:36 +0100 |
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rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes:
> The usual way to specify display margins is to set the buffer-local
> variables left-margin-width and right-margin-width.
>
> Perhaps fringes should be enabled and disabled similarly.
That would be nice yes. It is on my private list of things to
improve regarding fringes.
> At present, anything that appears in the display margins is tied to
> specific text in the buffer. I can't see how it would be useful to
> display anything about breakpoints that way in GUD mode. You can't
> use display margins as a vertical toolbar.
Normally, I would set a breakpoint on a specific line of a specific
file - and as a reminder, gud could put a marker on that line in
the display margin - something an IDE debugger commonly does.
If display margins are not the right tool for that, well...
>
> This might seem like a quibble, but the point is that when thinking
> about how to handle display margins, we need to think of uses for
> which they would actually do the right thing, not everything that you
> could imagine displaying at the side of a window.
Of course ... but I just grepped the .el files currently in
CVS, and there is not a single reference to `margin-width'.
So what *are* display margins the right tool for?
--
Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), (continued)
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Alveola Petrofsky, 2002/01/22
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/22
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Alveola Petrofsky, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Alveola Petrofsky, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/23
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/24
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs),
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Kim F. Storm, 2002/01/25
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/26
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Richard Stallman, 2002/01/26
- Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/23
Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Stefan Monnier, 2002/01/22
Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/22
Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/22