Variable: indicate-empty-lines

indicate-empty-lines is a customizable and buffer-local variable defined in buffer.c.

Documentation

Visually indicate unused ("empty") screen lines after the buffer end.

If non-nil, a bitmap is displayed in the left fringe of a window on graphical displays for each screen line that doesn't correspond to any buffer text.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Aliases

indicate-unused-lines

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
  DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("indicate-empty-lines",
		     &BVAR (current_buffer, indicate_empty_lines), Qnil,
		     doc: /* Visually indicate unused ("empty") screen lines after the buffer end.
If non-nil, a bitmap is displayed in the left fringe of a window
on graphical displays for each screen line that doesn't correspond
to any buffer text.  */);