Re: Customize fringe widths

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Pavel =?iso-8859-2?q?Jan=EDk?=)
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:31:27 +0100
> 
>    > 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.

Maybe.  Note that both reasons you cite would indicate that the user
indeed wants that space reclaimed, and doesn't seem to care about the
special glyphs.  In any case, when Kim codes this feature, they'll see
and will be able to decide.