Is It Possible To Replace Fringe Bitmaps With Text in Emacs? -


i'd love replace ugly pixel arrows indicating truncated or wrapped lines simple, tasteful text (maybe nice unicode character, \u2026 ellipsis). possible?

no, not. fringe “bitmaps” bitmaps, vectors of 0/1 bits, overlayed on fringe. there no way directly render arbitrary unicode characters onto fringe.

what can do, render unicode character 0/1 bitmap yourself. decent image editor (e.g. gimp, photoshop, pixelmator, paint.net, etc.) can this. convert bitmap fringe bitmap vector. format of fringe bitmaps described in customizing fringe bitmaps.

eventually can use these bitmap vectors replace left-arrow, right-arrow (for truncated lines), left-curly-arrow, , right-curly-arrow (for continued lines) bitmaps, using function define-fringe-bitmap.

however, i'd more hassle worth. fringe 8 pixels wide, you'd have squeeze beautiful unicode character 8x8 bitmap. means no subpixel rendering, no aliasing, no bytecode rendering, nothing of makes characters on screen nice , fancy. it'd ugly arrows have replaced.


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