From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:57:03 +0300 Message-ID: <8339yucbsg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837ho6czb6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271519913 16945 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2010 15:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mark.lillibridge@hp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 17 17:58:32 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3APY-0007k5-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3APT-0008JY-R4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3APO-0008H7-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48755 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3APJ-0008CU-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3APH-0001ZN-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:48003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3APH-0001ZD-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L11006002MDYA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:57:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.69.249]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L11004C32YZTK70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:57:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123807 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: mark.lillibridge@hp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:45:19 -0400 > > > What are these two ``kinds'' of restriction you are talking about, and > > how are they relevant to the issue at hand, which is how to number > > lines when a buffer is narrowed? > > He's proposing to distinguish between two different kinds of narrowing > (aka "restrictions"). Yes, but what _are_ these two kinds? How are they different from one another?