Re: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide

[Kim F. Storm]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I use Emacs 20 every day, and I see no
> fringe of any kind on the right (or left). My rightmost character (newline)
> is snug up against the vertical scroll bar (on the right). That is, if I put
> the cursor at the end of the longest line, the cursor is against the scroll
> bar, with no background showing between the two.

Exactly!  It's in the invisible fringe!  You cannot put any other character
there without the line being continued or truncated!

It is true that this was broken in emacs 21 -- basically making an extra
visible fringe next to the invisible fringe on the right.

But in emacs 22, the cursor on a "full-width" line is now shown IN the fringe.
So in emacs 22, the right fringe does not take up extra real-estate, just like
it was in emacs 20.

BTW, if you do debugging with gdb, the left fringe is very useful as well.

Also the indicate-buffer-boundaries variable makes good use of the fringes.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk