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Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps
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Yuri D'Elia |
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Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:34:08 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.7.9; emacs 29.0.50 |
On Thu, Mar 17 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I did comment on that. To repeat: it could be a useful new feature,
> but I don't think it should be _the_ solution for showing stuff on the
> fringes on hidpi terminals; we should be able to produce legible
> display of the bitmaps on those terminals.
Seen it, I was just prompting for more feedback on the idea and discuss
if this could be a good and/or bad idea.
>> I like the idea of using đŸ¢± (or ⤶⤷) for wrapped text, đŸ®— as a
>> end-of-buffer, and so on. Easily scaled, and nicely antialiased.
>
> You disregard the issue of which fonts support what characters in the
> relevant Unicode blocks.
Definitely.
> Solving this in the limited fringe screen estate will need some
> non-trivial ideas. And what about 'half-width' or 'minimal'
> fringe-styles?
I mentally imagine this as just scaling the font smaller to fit the
fringe width, centering each character vertically.
>> Especially the fact that this would potentially mean an usable fringe
>> mode on character displays that can be toggled, so that you don't need
>> to provide an alternate signaling mechanism if you rely on the fringe to
>> show makers (like gud).
>
> I don't think I follow. Emacs doesn't support fringes on TTY
> displays, so what do you mean by "usable fringe mode on character
> displays"?
That would be part of the advantage of allowing a character to be used
in lieu of a bitmap (either as a feature or as a fallback).
On a TTY we could just reserve the first/last column for the "fringe"
and display the lowest-common-denominator format available.
> This is already supported, see overlay-arrow-string. Or do you mean
> something else?
Yes, but it doesn't behave exactly in the same way as the fringe does.
(and I also as I just discovered, if I disable the fringe on a graphical
display I do not get the overlay arrows as a fallback -- or did I miss
some variable to control this behavior?)
- Bigger fringe bitmaps, Yuri D'Elia, 2022/03/16
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/16
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Po Lu, 2022/03/16
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Yuri D'Elia, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps,
Yuri D'Elia <=
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Yuri D'Elia, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Yuri D'Elia, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/18
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Yuri D'Elia, 2022/03/18
- RE: [External] : Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Drew Adams, 2022/03/18
- Re: [External] : Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, tomas, 2022/03/18
- RE: [External] : Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Drew Adams, 2022/03/18
- Re: [External] : Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, address@hidden, 2022/03/18