From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:26:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> <20170617202702.GC2955@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497735055 31877 195.159.176.226 (17 Jun 2017 21:30:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 21:30:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 17 23:30:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLIw-0007xj-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLJ1-0001xD-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLIM-0001wx-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLIJ-00010w-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:30:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45873 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLIJ-0000zL-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMLIC-0005Zz-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5Q35TvcuHxAowN6+9I+kgY1XCII= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215719 Archived-At: > I'm not sure either. One possible use is when using a build process > disjoint from Emacs which gives error and warning messages on a > terminal. It may be easier to find the pertinent lines if the line > numbers are displayed prominently. But this is speculation, nothing > more. I think this is more popular nowadays also because of all those screens that are so short yet so large that you don't really know what to do with the horizontal real-estate (while suffering from a lack of vertical real-estate). Stefan