Re: Bigger fringe bitmaps

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:21:14 +0100
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> I agree it's more powerful, but the overlay-arrow shares the same space
> >> with the buffer, so it can hide existing information. I like the fact
> >> that the fringe is a minimal, non-shared, space.
> >
> > How would you go about not sharing the screen space with the buffer,
> > when the display is a TTY?  What else is there that we could use
> > instead?
> 
> First/last column reserved when the "tty fringe" is on. On one hand,
> potentially more wasteful than the overlay-arrow. On the other, it would
> be guaranteed to be a single-character only (and any character there
> wouldn't overlap - making it clearly distinct).

How many hours will pass before someone requests a capability to use
more than just a single column?  We already use two with "=>", so
going down to one with something like ">" will probably be considered
a regression by some.

So I think the current situation is better on balance.