Smaller font when run in a terminal

[mcandre]

When Emacs is run in a terminal, we aren't able to use the typical GUI font options to make the minimap font size smaller. Could we use other characters to accomplish this, the way vim-minimap does?

[ghost]

Vim minimap uses braille characters

I made a drawille implementation in emacs lisp, and would gladly help integrating it in emacs minimap.

A great thing is that minimap is part of the elpa, and then, I will need a "signed copyright assignment with the FSF for GNU Emacs" to contribute to it directly.

@dengste Are you interested, and then, will I really need such a thing to add drawille support?

[mstorus]

This would be really useful. Any update?

[dengste]

I actually cannot really imagine minimap working well in a terminal. But if you manage to do that and it's not too much effort/lines of code for me to maintain, then of course I'd merge this.