Re: Customize fringe widths

[Kai Großjohann]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.

But then you explain to them what the right fringe is used for.  And
then they agree that the right fringe is a good thing.  And then they
ask how to remove the left fringe.

So I'm not so sure that they really want to get rid of the glyphs.

kai
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