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| -rw-r--r-- | itches/emacs/form-feed.md | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/itches/emacs/form-feed.md b/itches/emacs/form-feed.md index 5dd0188..4827a87 100644 --- 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 |