Re: fringe bugs and issues (and a couple display margin bugs)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: 25 Jan 2002 09:41:36 +0100
> 
> Normally, I would set a breakpoint on a specific line of a specific
> file - and as a reminder, gud could put a marker on that line in
> the display margin - something an IDE debugger commonly does.
> If display margins are not the right tool for that, well...

Can't the fringes be used for this?

> I just grepped the .el files currently in
> CVS, and there is not a single reference to `margin-width'.
> So what *are* display margins the right tool for?

Gerd answered that question a while ago (I think someone forwarded
that to gnu.emacs.help or maybe comp.emacs).