Re: Customizing the fringe bitmaps

[Per Abrahamsen]

"Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden> writes:

> Another option would be to let the user draw the bitmap like this:
>
> (set-fringe-bitmap 'overlay-arrow 
>                  '("*        "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*        "))
>
> Personally, I like the second option as it is fully self-contained.
>
> The major problem with this approach is that it isn't obvious (to me)
> how to do this through Customize.

It could probably be done using the :set and :get options to defcustom.