Re: gutter region on both sides of screen

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:52:58 -0700
> Cc: 
> 
> Emacs 21 introduced fringe as a feature, but AFAIK provided no way to turn it
> off. This is a good example of how not to add a new feature. ;-)

That wasn't intentional.  Emacs 21 completely changed the display
engine, which led to a very long development cycle and an extremely
long pretest.  The pressure was high to release Emacs 21.1, so some
development plans never materialized.