Re: what happened to fringe customization?

[David Kastrup]

tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) writes:

> I could have sworn I remember seeing articles that said the "next"
> version of emacs would allow you to turn off the extra fringe,

No.  This functionality is in development Emacs, and the next
release not merely concerned with bugfixing will have it.  21.3 is a
bugfix release.

> yet I just downloaded 21.3 and the only thing in the NEWS file is a
> bunch of new encoding stuff (like utf-16), and nothing new about
> fringes shows up in any apropos searches or the texinfo docs. [BTW,
> about half of my .emacs file is now dedicated to the ruthless
> eradication of all the unicode and encoding crap :-].

CVS Emacs just does the right thing with about all of Unicode.

> Where did fringe customization go?

It never was in the 21.3 branch.

> Is it just that 21.3 is now the "current" version, so I don't yet
> have the "next" version with fringe customization? :-).

21.4 will have that and wagonloads of other stuff.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum