From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display window line numbers
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867cz474o3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wn745rid.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:14:18 +0200")
>> I wonder why ‘display-line-numbers’ doesn't provide an option
>> to display line numbers relative to the window-start?
>
> Because no one asked for it.
>
> And I don't really see the importance, FWIW: why isn't the 'visual' variety
> not what you want? Then "C-u N C-p" and "C-u n C-n" will do what you want.
>
> What am I missing?
`M-N M-p' is easy to type, and also it's easier to read numbers incrementally
going from top to bottom, not in reverse order as 'visual' does for lines
before the current line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-06 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-06 17:10 Display window line numbers Juri Linkov
2022-12-06 18:04 ` João Paulo Labegalini de Carvalho
2022-12-06 18:43 ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-06 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-06 18:44 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-12-06 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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