Re: zero-width line continuation glyph

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:58:55 +0200
>> 
>> Iʼm trying to get the line continuation character to not be shown for
>> lines that are exactly as long as the window width. In a GUI frame,
>> with the fringe turned off, I can do:
>> 
>> (let ((disptab (or buffer-display-table
>>                    (setq buffer-display-table (make-display-table)))))
>>     (set-display-table-slot disptab 'wrap (gethash "ZERO WIDTH SPACE" 
>> (ucs-names))))
>> 
>> which causes the '\' to not be shown, but the next character does not
>> get displayed in its place, ie
>
> Actually, I'm not sure this will work at all, because Emacs needs a
> place to put the cursor at EOL.  So it cannot put a character there,
> because without a fringe, there's no place to display the cursor.

Youʼre right: customizing glyphless-char-display-control to
zero-width for 'format-control' makes no difference.

> I think you will have a much better approximation of what you want if
> you keep the fringe, but make it 1-pixel wide.

Unfortunately emacs -nw has no fringes.

Robert