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Re: Making vertical-border char defcustom?


From: Paul W. Rankin
Subject: Re: Making vertical-border char defcustom?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:25:52 +1000

On 21 Jan 2020, at 4:08 am, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> We don't offer customization of the display tables via defcustom, most
> probably because it is "tricky" (as you yourself discovered).  I
> hesitate to offer just this one slot of the display table, and the
> fact that it only affects TTY frames and requires UTF-8 capable
> terminal on top of that doesn't provide additional motivation...

Do you mean tricky from an implementation or user perspective? From my user 
perspective, I'm hoping it can be made less tricky.

> display-fill-column-indicator-character is an entirely different
> matter, it's a minor mode which lets users specify an indicator glyph.

This I mean more from a user perspective, as in, "Oh I see I can customise this 
vertical line but I can't customise this vertical line next to it..."


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