From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: , Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 13:16:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgop1ofi.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170618114251.GA22671@acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2017 11:42:51 +0000")
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
Alan> I've just tried it. It works mostly well, except...
Alan> 1. Enable relative line numbers globally. 2. Visit a file,
Alan> put it in two or several side by side windows. 3. Start
Alan> follow-mode.
Alan> The relative line numbers are now "global", in that they are
Alan> relative to point in the selected window.
I was thinking of mentioning this, but you beat me to it.
I would like to add a remark in defence of line numbers. I always use
them with the exception of certain modes, e.g. org-mode, gnus. I work
mainly on large tex files and find line numbers useful in giving me a
sense of where I am in the document. Ok there are other ways of doing
that, but I wouldn't want to change.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-18 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-17 15:12 Native display of line numbers Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-18 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 16:52 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-17 17:20 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-17 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-18 4:27 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-18 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 20:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-17 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-18 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 11:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-18 12:16 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2017-06-18 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 15:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-18 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 20:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-19 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-17 20:47 ` Sébastien Le Callonnec
2017-06-18 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 10:51 ` Sébastien Le Callonnec
2017-06-17 21:32 ` Mathias Dahl
2017-06-17 22:12 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-18 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 2:25 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-19 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 16:33 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-18 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 14:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-18 8:44 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-18 8:58 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-18 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 8:04 ` martin rudalics
2017-06-19 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-18 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 16:54 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-18 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 5:32 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-19 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-24 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 19:41 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2017-06-18 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-18 20:48 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2017-06-19 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 3:07 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2017-06-19 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 2:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-19 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 4:30 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-18 22:20 ` Scott Jaderholm
2017-06-19 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 5:49 ` Scott Jaderholm
2017-06-19 16:56 ` Stephen Leake
2017-06-19 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 18:43 ` Stephen Leake
2017-06-19 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 18:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-19 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-19 19:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-19 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-22 15:02 ` Filipe Silva
2017-06-22 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-22 15:46 ` Filipe Silva
2017-06-23 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-23 21:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-23 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-24 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-22 16:27 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-22 16:56 ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-23 11:10 ` Filipe Silva
2017-06-23 11:17 ` Filipe Silva
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2017-06-17 23:44 Joseph Garvin
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