From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2lkb6kb.fsf@gmail.com> <9A4FA038-CCFD-45DF-8B57-E348AFF951D9@gmail.com> <87sgbsb0eb.fsf@gmail.com> <87h7s6c31d.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19774"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: TEC Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 06:15:35 2020 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 1kGaTH-00051c-DI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37944 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaTG-0002Tx-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRn-0008D1-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRm-00012g-MF; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRk-00045y-T7; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7s6c31d.fsf@gmail.com> (message from TEC on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:45:18 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255078 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > ;; This determines the style of line numbers in effect. If set to `nil', line > ;; numbers are disabled. For relative line numbers, set this to `relative'. > (setq display-line-numbers-type t) The default for this should depend on the screen width! Maybe most young people make wide Emacs frames, since modern laptop screens are lengthwise and width foolish. but PLEASE do not propose defaults that cater to ONLY to one kind of usage. DTRT for multiple kinds! -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)