Re: blank-mode.el

[Robert J. Chassell]

    It happens that the visual mark for end of line is the same
    used in other editors to visualize end of paragraphs.

The symbol for marking where to put in a paragraph break has been
common for years -- it is a standard proofreader's mark.  It does not
indicate the end of a line but where to start a new paragraph.  It has
a very different meaning.  You might want to draw a symbol to indicate
the end of a line.

I don't know of any standard symbol for the end of a line besides the
curved arrow conventionally used in a fringe in an Emacs for a newline
on a windowing system ... and that symbol in a fringe means that a
newline does not exist ...  My hunch is that before the coming of
computers, proofreaders presumed that typesetters would always avoid
running lines to the right because of boundaries in their frame or
boundaries of the paper on which proofs were printed.

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