From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: with text file including very long lines, line number field of mode line becomes "??" Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:47:30 -0800 Message-ID: <9F44291DA6EB4DA49F00F796FBAC0893@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354294069 1044 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2012 16:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Andreas Schwab'" , "'netjunegg'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 17:48:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TeTkr-0001O4-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:47:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeTkf-00042A-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeTkZ-00041z-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:47:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeTkY-00024C-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TeTkY-00023I-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qAUGlafA025792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:47:37 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAUGlZAr006680 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:47:35 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qAUGlYaD018515; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:47:35 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.169.89) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:47:34 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac3O6+gVlqBWA0CYSSCRUAXug9u5lgALczQg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155148 Archived-At: > See line-number-display-limit and line-number-display-limit-width. Maybe the popup menu over the line number could have an item that takes you to the doc for those vars when `??' is displayed: (emacs) `Optional Mode Line'. IOW, `??' says only "No idea what the line number is". It could help to also point users to info on how to control/fix this. And/or a popup item could just increase the limit to make it big enough to show the number of the last line number for the current buffer.