[Nano-devel] [PATCH 1/2] display: replace the "$" continuation character with ">" and "<"

[Benno Schulenberg]

The angular brackets look a bit like arrows and thus hint much more
at the idea of continuation than a dollar sign.

Also, to avoid using the angular brackets for two purposes, the left
half of a split double-width character is shown as "[" instead of ">",
and the right half as "]" instead of "<".

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55657.
Reported-by: David Lawrence Ramsey <address@hidden>
---
 src/winio.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index f4f20876..8bb565c0 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -1903,8 +1903,8 @@ char *display_string(const char *buf, size_t column, 
size_t span, bool isdata)
                                column++;
                        }
 
-                       /* Display the right half of a two-column character as 
'<'. */
-                       converted[index++] = '<';
+                       /* Display the right half of a two-column character as 
']'. */
+                       converted[index++] = ']';
                        column++;
                        buf += parse_mbchar(buf, NULL, NULL);
                }
@@ -1992,9 +1992,9 @@ char *display_string(const char *buf, size_t column, 
size_t span, bool isdata)
                index = move_mbleft(converted, index);
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_UTF8
-               /* Display the left half of a two-column character as '>'. */
+               /* Display the left half of a two-column character as '['. */
                if (mbwidth(converted + index) == 2)
-                       converted[index++] = '>';
+                       converted[index++] = '[';
 #endif
        }
 
@@ -2776,9 +2776,9 @@ int update_line(filestruct *fileptr, size_t index)
        free(converted);
 
        if (from_col > 0)
-               mvwaddch(edit, row, margin, '$');
+               mvwaddch(edit, row, margin, '<');
        if (strlenpt(fileptr->data) > from_col + editwincols)
-               mvwaddch(edit, row, COLS - 1, '$');
+               mvwaddch(edit, row, COLS - 1, '>');
 
        if (spotlighted && !inhelp)
                spotlight(light_from_col, light_to_col);
-- 
2.20.1