Re: Customize fringe widths

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
   Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:27:34 +0200 (IST)

   > > Are you suggesting that an X-frame with no fringes should not indicate
   > > truncation or continuation at all?  That would be simpler, I agree.
   > > Is it what users want when they eliminate the fringes?
   > 
   > IIRC, at least some of the users indicated that they don't see the
   > glyphs in the fringe as useful, and that that's why they wanted to
   > turn the fringe off.

What I have seen is that people who reported that fringe is not-removable
always mention the "(useless) empty space". Maybe they have not seen glyphs
in their texts at all. Maybe they use emacs maximised in X and do not want
fringe to take the (for them) useful space.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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