[Bug: 21.5-b28] why fold an 80-char line in an 80-col window?

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

on 02/25/2008 01:30 AM Anders J. Munch said the following:
>> Guido van Rossum writes:
>>  > (*) When is Emacs going to fix the bug where it decides to fold a line
>>  > that's exactly as wide as the window? This 79 business is really
>>  > silly, and had to impose on people using other editors.

This has always bugged me as well.

> When at the end of an 80-character line in an 80-column window, where
> do you paint a block cursor?

I always set

   (set-specifier left-margin-width 1)
   (set-specifier right-margin-width 1)

in my init file. This isn't enough room to paint a block cursor (which 
is 10 pixels wide in my setup.) But the right and left margin widths 
could be automatically adjusted depending on the cursor width,leaving 
room to paint the block cursor.

How do other editors handle this situation?

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic


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