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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Matthias Meulien <orontee@gmail.com>
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  larsi@gnus.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:12:56 +0100
> 
> 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.

What column alignment do you have in mind, and why would it not be
preserved without using the fringes?  Do you see such a problem in the
Customize buffers?

> Also is a newby expected to disable the fringe??

Yes, because they tend to copycat init files by other users.