From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>,
Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>,
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>,
Jose Arroyo <jose.m.arroyo.se@gmail.com>,
Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:17:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+OMD9hUQjiak3Beh01WNL=k-6zECHZC7vL2g+-MfX5D0gLbQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XCu9AN_JHD9dTw0ZE+Z7CJ0C3Rahbu7_OcMmhXjjSeNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There is no ambiguity between line and column number. Line, as the
> most significant item, obviously goes to the left, while the least
> significant column goes to the right. Same as hundreds:tens:ones. Same
> as /home/myuser/mydir/myfile. Same as year-month-day
> hour:minute:second. (Contrary to site.domain.tld though.)
>
This is not the way an average user might think. He'll see the numbers
(16,18), will have to pause his thinking, will say to himself, is the line
number 16 or 18 again. Wait, let me move the cursor around and check. Oh,
I see now. He will have wasted his time and broken his train of thought.
I bet it even happens to more advanced users.
If anybody likes explicitly labeled line and column numbers together, I
would chime in now if you want to see any near term changes.
So far, I think opinion expressed is split with slightly more people
preferring the explicit labeling.
Bob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-28 21:56 Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 7:02 ` Colin Baxter
2017-09-29 8:25 ` Jose Arroyo
2017-09-29 9:22 ` Colin Baxter
2017-09-29 13:26 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 16:23 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 17:35 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-29 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 18:26 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-29 18:30 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-29 18:48 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-29 19:17 ` Robert Weiner [this message]
2017-09-29 19:30 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-29 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-29 13:14 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 17:49 ` John Wiegley
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