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Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:30:25 +0200 |
> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:34:08 +0100
>
> 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 think it's a good idea. It "just" needs to be implemented...
> > 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.
Emacs doesn't know how to scale a font at display time. The font is
"scaled" (or, rather, selected) when the face using the font is
defined. So dynamically changing the font of a face when the user
plays with fringe-style would be another complication that needs to be
taken care of.
> >> 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.
How is this different from what overlay-arrow already does? It is
even more flexible, as it is not limited to a single column.
> > 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.
In what way does it not behave the same?
> (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?)
What did you try? See the "Overlay Arrow" node in the ELisp manual
for what is available.
- 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, 2022/03/17
- Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps,
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- 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
- Re: [External] : Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps, Po Lu, 2022/03/18