From: "David House" <dmhouse@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:42:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebe43d680706070842u2f961885g6d6e153c882a0037@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEEDFDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
On 07/06/07, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> The main point is that either order would be clear (i.e. would not "be
> confusing"), because of the explicit dimension indicators `x' and `y'. The
> same is not true of the other suggestions (except for `C' and `L').
Disagreed - I'd probably just glance at the first number and expect it
to be a column number.
Additionally, the numbers in 184x25y aren't as visually distinct as in
(184,25) or 184L 25C (although the latter is still confusing as the L
and C tend to visually merge into the numerals).
> What's the connection with compiler error messages? This is interactive
> feedback about cursor position in a buffer. In compiler output, you are
> primarily (as in first) interested in the line number. That's not the case
> here - you might be interested in either or both. Yes, it would be
> "abnormal" for compiler messages to list the column number first. I don't
> see why that's pertinent here.
They still have in common that they display a line number and a column
number. There aren't many other places where this happens, so compiler
messages are pretty much the standard, I guess.
--
-David House, dmhouse@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-05 23:19 display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-06 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 17:36 ` mode line: 1) indicate region size, if active; 2) highlight column # if > limit Drew Adams
2007-06-06 17:44 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-06 18:26 ` David House
2007-06-06 18:41 ` chad brown
2007-06-08 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-23 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-24 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-06 19:44 ` display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented David Kastrup
2007-06-06 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-06 20:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-06 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:17 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-07 15:42 ` David House [this message]
2007-06-07 15:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 15:44 ` David House
2007-06-07 15:45 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 15:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-07 16:15 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 17:28 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-06-07 17:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-07 19:39 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-07 18:13 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-07 20:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-07 21:33 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-08 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 15:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-09 20:35 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-09 21:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-10 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-10 23:24 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-11 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-13 8:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 13:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-10 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 3:40 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-11 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-11 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-11 9:50 ` David House
2007-06-11 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-08 7:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 7:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-08 8:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 9:42 ` David House
2007-06-09 9:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-08 8:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-08 8:38 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-08 20:05 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-08 8:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-06 21:57 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-07 5:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-06-10 8:35 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-06-10 14:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-06 23:53 ` Jay Belanger
2007-06-07 0:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-07 0:08 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-08 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-07 8:23 ` tomas
2007-06-07 17:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-06-08 8:26 ` tomas
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