commit 619b1cf98bda2d12af48b39913d87454ff7bb7bd
parent a4401b352150205d2f6ee7e3dc99c1145e399c60
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 15:04:54 +0200
Add one more potential use-case for a prettier form feed
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/itches/emacs/form-feed.md b/itches/emacs/form-feed.md
@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@ magit's `show-lines` blaming style achieves a similar look.
This hypothetical thin-line display could be re-used by e.g.:
-- `describe-symbol`, which uses the following method to visually break
- up multiple symbol definitions:
+- `apropos-documentation`, where symbol matches are delimited by
+ strings of hyphens,
+
+- `describe-symbol`, where symbol definitions are delimited by text
+ properties:
``` lisp
(insert "\n\n"
@@ -38,18 +41,18 @@ This hypothetical thin-line display could be re-used by e.g.:
"\n")
```
-- Custom buffers, where sections are delimited visually with a
- 999-character wide underlined space.
+- Custom buffers, where sections are delimited with a
+ 999-character-wide underlined space.
(See [emacs-devel][emacs-devel-thin-line] for a list of use-cases for
thin lines, form-feed-related or not.)
Full disclosure
: This reflection started because moving over this underlined space
- with `truncate-lines` on causes the screen to jump horizontally.
- This specific problem should be fixable without dragging FORM FEED
- display into the discussion, but I feel like the latter is the
- more interesting issue ([who on Earth] enables `truncate-lines` by
+ with `truncate-lines` on caused the screen to jump horizontally.
+ This specific problem was fixed without dragging FORM FEED display
+ into the discussion, but I feel like the latter is the more
+ interesting issue ([who on Earth] enables `truncate-lines` by
default anyway).
[`page-break-lines`]: https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines
