Re: Tweaking the output of `C-h b'

[Matthias Meulien]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:26:16 +0800
>> 
>> How about an arrow bitmap in the left fringe?  Could that work?
>
> Some people disable the fringes, so this is not a good idea for such a
> basic feature, one directed at newbies and confused users at that.

But, using the fringe is the only solution that preserves columns
alignment! Please give it a second thought.

I guess unexpected indentation will confuse newbies more than the use of
the fringe. Imagine a buffer with Python source code and outline minor
mode enabled...

Also is a newby expected to disable the fringe??
-- 
Matthias