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Re: Side windows


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Side windows
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:54:21 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> >>> Maybe, 1-column side bar windows?
>> >>
>> >> The fringe, I think.
>> >
>> > The fringe nearest the scroll-bar is the right place to display the
>> > indicators I think, but we need a new mechanism to display them, as
>> > they should not scroll with the buffer text.
>>
>> Does this mean an additional fringe is necessary that doesn't scroll?
>
> Not necessarily.  We could provide a feature whereby bitmaps displayed
> in the fringe would be moved by redisplay so that their position
> relative to the window top does not change as the window is scrolled.

Currently fringe positions are relative to lines (to indicate truncated
lines, continued lines, overlay arrows, etc.)

Using it to indicate window relative positions like scroll bars do
will make a mess in the same fringe.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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