From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display window line numbers Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <867cz474o3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <86tu2apdio.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83wn745rid.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30907"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 19:47:43 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p2cyl-0007q3-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:47:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2cxv-0007bv-8Y; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2cxm-0007b7-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:46:42 -0500 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::230]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2cxj-00058H-Ck; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85E66240008; Tue, 6 Dec 2022 18:46:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <83wn745rid.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:14:18 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::230; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay10.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300978 Archived-At: >> 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.