Re: Customizing the fringe bitmaps

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Kevin A. Burton) writes:

> Could I put multiple bitmaps on the same fringe on the same line?

Currently not - and you (ie. emacs lisp) don't really have any control
over what is shown in the fringe.

> 
> Seems like this would work well for vertical line numbering.
>
I've had the same idea, but looking at the code doesn't allow that easily.
And it has to be done by emacs internals.


> The XPM format seems like it would be nice for this.

Sure, but I like the simplicity of editing the bitmaps inside emacs
so I can try out the effect of changes to a bitmap immediately.