commit 85ad41194abb3727d06a9837920b22f80f010ab6
parent 4ac885766a82c50c62c30ebf8b214ff3c161164f
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 12:56:18 +0200
Glare at form-feed itch
The Day Of Scratching nigheþ 🕯️
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diff --git a/itches/emacs/form-feed.md b/itches/emacs/form-feed.md
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ This hypothetical thin-line display could be re-used by e.g.:
- Custom buffers, where sections are delimited with a
999-character-wide underlined space,
-- `eldoc-doc-buffer-separator`.
+- `eldoc-doc-buffer-separator`,
+
+- `shr-hr-line`
See [emacs-devel][emacs-devel-thin-line] for a list of use-cases for
thin lines, form-feed-related or not.
@@ -57,6 +59,13 @@ thin lines, form-feed-related or not.
[junk]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41250#89
[emacs-devel-thin-line]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00268.html
+## State of the art
+
+Emacs has grown some facilities that we could build on:
+
+- `page-delimiter` locates spots in the buffer that mark page limits;
+- `(make-separator-line)` produces a "thin-line" representation.
+
## Incidental motivation
This reflection started because moving over this underlined space with