From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:28:01 +0300 Message-ID: <831sqhz7ym.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497796110 16365 195.159.176.226 (18 Jun 2017 14:28:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 18 16:28:24 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 1dMbBg-0003rz-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMbBl-0003Qt-BX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMbBc-0003Ql-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMbBX-0007DW-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMbBX-0007DO-Oc; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3285 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dMbBW-0002RS-OQ; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:28:15 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Mathias Dahl on Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:32:13 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:215742 Archived-At: > From: Mathias Dahl > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:32:13 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Emacs pioneered today's world where all this is unnecessary, and the > > rest is history. > > Are you thinking now about the difference between line editors > and... whatever Emacs is (screen editor?) And, wasn't Emacs too > influenced by the limited display devices that existed back then? I > understand this is not your main point here, but you mentioned it in > your post, so... Not meaning to start an argument, by the way, I'm > mostly curious on your thinking. What I had in mind was the Emacs commands which accept prefix argument to mean how many lines to move/copy/delete/whatever. E.g., "C-u C-u C-n", something AFAIK no other editor has to this day. > > > Can you please add support for highlighting the current line number, > > > using a different face (See the highlighted line number by nlinum on > > > the right hand side)? > > > Is it really important? Why? do people really have difficulty finding > > the line where point/cursor is? > > I think it is a useful visual help/guide and probably is extra useful > when your cursor is not close to the left side of the window. Given the responses, I guess we will need to have this sub-mode as well. Thanks for the feedback.