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: Emacs26: Quick thoughts on display-line-numbers-mode Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:37:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83h8vdwh7t.fsf@gnu.org> <83d161wenj.fsf@gnu.org> <1507259379.15251.27.camel@gmail.com> <834lrcwxd0.fsf@gnu.org> <6CA5DFB3-8D0C-4B3D-9F72-3434F83B5895@gmail.com> <83y3oovgh5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507293502 29406 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2017 12:38:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 12:38:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 14:38:19 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 1e0RtR-00079F-Ux for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0RtZ-00041E-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Rt1-00040m-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Rsx-0006wX-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45640 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Rsx-0006vL-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Rsm-0002zk-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:37:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UzEqw38yPV4zud8khppX1/0GtiA= 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:219175 Archived-At: >> If I understand the problem correctly, since orientation depends on >> paragraph, does that mean line numbers could be on different sides in the >> same window? > Yes. You can see that in action if you visit TUTORIAL.he with > display-line-numbers-mode turned on. Oh, wow, I hadn't realized that. Is that the generally expected behavior? As a naive user who can't read any R2L scripts, I find this very unexpected. I'd have expected/wanted instead the line numbers to always be on the same side for a given window (tho I admit that I'm not sure how to turn this rule into an implementable behavior, except maybe by letting the user decide globally whether line numbers should be on the left or the right). But again, I'm just a very naive user who's never bothered by the current behavior because he never faces such situations anyway. Stefan