Re: Fill column indicator functionality

[Ergus]

Hi again:

I have been checking the display engine and the commits to add the
display-line-number functionality. With this, it really looks much
simpler to implement the version of the vertical line (character at
column X).

Do you still think not worth it to try a simpler implementation where the
only specification is the column number and the character to use? (And
probably the face). Not shown when the line is longer or when the window
is narrower.

If someone can advise or start with this I will be very happy to help. I
think that the there is a lot to gain and nothing to lose. This is a
basic text editing functionality. Many text/code editors have it and
there is not any reason we can't replicate it.

And we should improve firstly the editor functionalities, because that's
the reason people starts using emacs, later they discover the rest; but
the first it is, is a text editor.



On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:31:00PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: John Yates <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Emacs developers 
> > <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:41:04 +0000
> >
> > Having said that, I appreciate that the design and implementation of
> > this will be non-trivial, as there are many decisions to be made and
> > circumstances/options to be supported.
>
> This doesn't have to be non-trivial, if we are smart enough not to
> over-specify the feature.