Re: Yesterdays observation of lower left fringe

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
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>> If the last line has an ending newline char then place the fringe symbol
>> one line down (and let it be the same symbol). What about that?
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> That would make the normal case where there is a terminating newline
> present*, kind of ugly IMO.   I'd agree that the upper right symbol is
> a bit wierd, but better use a different symbol when there's no final
> newline, maybe something like |... , not move a line down IMO. i.e. a
> dotted horizontal bar on the "L" because the line hasn't been terminated
> yet.

If we think of the ending newline as terminating the line then maybe
using a lower right corner for that and a lower left corner for the
"unterminated" line would be "more mnemonic".

> * Technically, a bit like C vs. Pascal ';', most programs treat "\n" as
> a line terminator, some as a line separator.   Having the fringe marker
> move another line down for a present final newline would make more sense
> if newline were considered a separator, as programs observing that
> convention might think there was a new, empty line if the last line in
> the file had a newline at the end.  But AFAIK considering it a
> terminator is far more common than separator.
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