From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Advice needed on modeline customization hack... Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20170416201305.6cf3cf2d@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20170415212800.5be89037@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416094929.51e94c82@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416104633.1768bbb6@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416120942.36af8967@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416180620.3615b4b6@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416181607.4ca1971e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20170416185740.7d848393@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492387992 26911 195.159.176.226 (17 Apr 2017 00:13:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit-Claudel , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 17 02:13:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czuHz-0006tT-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 02:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czuI5-0004tX-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45449) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czuHz-0004tG-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czuHy-00066e-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:52560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1czuHy-00065q-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E861F9; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76BA2DE021; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:13:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214036 Archived-At: On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Drew Adams wrote: > > the patches allow the user to customize the column number > > in column-number-mode to start from one instead of from zero. > > Why? > Because all compilers spit out errors that start at column 1 and not 0, and this means that what I see in the mode line will match the error output of the compilers I use (including those following GNU coding standards, which see.) It is not the default, it is a new knob you can turn. If you don't like the feature, then don't set the variable controlling it. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com