Re: setnu-mode and Emacs 21.

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Would it be possible to use _one_ term for the stuff at the side of a
> Emacs frame?  Right now I've seen the following terms used (in code,
> documentation and on mailing lists):
> 
> fringe
> bitmap area
> flags area
> margin
> display margins

The right terms are only two: ``the fringe'' for the area where the 
continuation and truncation glyphs are drawn, and ``the display
margins'' for the feature mentioned by Michael.  These are two
different features, so we _do_ need two different names. ;-)