On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Marco Hinz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, I suppose there is something to say for both ways. What do the > > users prefer? > > I understand that such visual changes are almost always controversial, > especially for such a long-lasting editor with its big community. > > I'd argue that this patch makes the fold and sign column work as the > number column is working already -- stopping at the end of the buffer. > > The functionality of these columns is to signify information about > certain lines, but since there can't be anything after the end of the > buffer, why should there be a column in the first place? > > Moreover, the end is also indicated via ~ markers, so you could say > that some redundancy is removed. > > On the other hand I think that some people won't like the change, > since it's really just cosmetic and brings nothing new to the table, > neither a fix nor a "useful" feature. > > I know of at least one person who would like to see the exact > opposite; making the number column continue after the end of the > buffer, so that the ~ markers are always aligned with the actual start > of the lines in the file. Personally I find the "new" way to be visually horrible. The "~" should always be aligned with the starts of the lines. Here's one way to image the horror. Imagine that one uses a colorscheme whereby the "linenr guibg" and the backgrounds for the sign columns, etc. are identical with the "normal guibg", e.g., all are the same shade of gray. Then the proposed patch would look terrible, with the "~" characters inexplicably set far to the left of the line numbers. One could say "just don't use such a colorscheme", but that's silly in part because the very same advice could be given to people who like the patch: if you don't use a colorscheme with contrasting backgrounds, it won't look weird that the "gutter" keeps going past the end of the buffer. I.e., minus-1. -Manny -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
