Re: Word wrapping and long lines

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>>> (2) Having the margin be on the other side of the fringe is kind of
>>> annoying; personally, when I want a bunch of whitespace on the right, I
>>> want it to be whitespace, without the "barrier" the fringe represents.
>> 
>> I do not know what to do about the barrier, but this takes care of the
>> left margin.
>
> But ... - why do you car about the barrier? I mean there is no new line
> characters involved. The text is "floating".

It's visually distracting.  I want the fringe to be exactly that -- a
fringe, on the edge of the display, not in the middle of my window.

I think the essential problem is that putting the margin areas on the
opposite side of the fringe from the text was just kind of stupid in the
first place.  I dunno why that was done...

Given that almost no code seems to use the margins, I think it might be
reasonable to change their locations without bothering about backward
compatibility.

-Miles

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