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: Emacs26: Quick thoughts on display-line-numbers-mode Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:17:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83d160uzrs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h8vdwh7t.fsf@gnu.org> <83d161wenj.fsf@gnu.org> <1507259379.15251.27.camel@gmail.com> <834lrcwxd0.fsf@gnu.org> <6CA5DFB3-8D0C-4B3D-9F72-3434F83B5895@gmail.com> <83y3oovgh5.fsf@gnu.org> <83infsv31u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507299487 26532 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2017 14:18:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 14:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 16:18:03 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 1e0TRy-0006Ny-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:18:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0TS6-0006yl-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0TRW-0006yg-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0TRV-0000xv-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0TRP-0000rx-Ro; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1097 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e0TRO-0005e3-8M; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 10:17:27 -0400 In-reply-to: (johnw@gnu.org) 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:219184 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:09 -0400 > > EZ> I don't know. It doesn't strike me as blatantly wrong, to give you just > EZ> one data point. I guess we will have to hear more from users. In general, > EZ> buffers with changing paragraph direction are quite rare, btw. > > As someone who edits R2L buffers, I'd prefer line numbers always being on one > side of the buffer or the other -- hopefully with an easy way to fix the side, > or toggle it depending on what I'm doing. English text with R2L in it is > usually a different scenario than R2L with some English in it. If you have R2L text with some English in it, you can easily arrange for paragraph direction always being R2L. But your opinion is noted, thanks. I still think we need much more feedback before we decide to change the current implementation, especially since it's not a trivial change.