indicate end of articles that exactly fill the *Article* buffer

indicate end of articles that exactly fill the *Article* buffer

[jidanni]

Gentlemen, if an article is exactly the length of the *Article*
buffer, one cannot tell and will hit spacebar thinking there is
another page to read, and instead end up dragging in the next
possibly unrelated boring article over the network.

There should be some bright bar showing the end of the article or
something.

toggle-indicate-empty-lines: won't help here, as there are no empty
lines.

size-indication-mode: yeah, but who checks the modeline every time
before hitting spacebar?

Scrollbars: ditto.

Re: indicate end of articles that exactly fill the *Article* buffer

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:57:46 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> Gentlemen, if an article is exactly the length of the *Article*
j> buffer, one cannot tell and will hit spacebar thinking there is
j> another page to read, and instead end up dragging in the next
j> possibly unrelated boring article over the network.

j> There should be some bright bar showing the end of the article or
j> something.

j> toggle-indicate-empty-lines: won't help here, as there are no empty
j> lines.

j> size-indication-mode: yeah, but who checks the modeline every time
j> before hitting spacebar?

j> Scrollbars: ditto.

Maybe you can use a Unicode character to show the end of the buffer?  I
don't know how to do it, but it should not be hard.  Try it out and if
you like it, maybe it can be a Gnus option for general usage.

Ted