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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line-number-mode at EOB
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:04:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva841sson.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83bmohdcid.fsf@gnu.org

>> I think if we want to make things consistent with the
>> display-line-numbers, then it's display-line-numbers which should be
>> changed to also display the number on the "non-existing" line after
>> a final LF.
> But there's no line there.

That's a philosophical opinion.
There's enough of a line to display a cursor, apparently.

> Why should we have a number where there's no line?

Because that's what some users expect.
Evidence of this includes the fact that it has been requested for linum,
for nlinum, for display-line-numbers.

I said "some" above because I don't know which proportion of users
expect this behavior.  My guess is that it's closer to "most", but since
I'm among those users, my impression is probably skewed.

Evidence suggests those users can live with the current lack of number
on that non-existing line, so it's not terribly important to fix (which
is also why I haven't bothered to try and change nlinum.el to display
that extra line-number).

But I don't think it warrants promoting this behavior to a feature.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-24 17:27 Native display of line numbers, improved Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-24 18:40 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-24 18:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-24 20:53 ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25 14:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25 14:34     ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25 15:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25 15:41         ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25 16:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25 19:00             ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-24 21:23 ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25 14:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25 14:34     ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25 14:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-17 22:20       ` line-number-mode at EOB (was: Native display of line numbers, improved) Stephen Berman
2017-07-18  4:16         ` line-number-mode at EOB Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 14:04           ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-18 14:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 14:51               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-18 15:04                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-07-20 20:25                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-20 20:43                     ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-20 21:19                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-20 21:35                         ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-18 14:55         ` line-number-mode at EOB (was: Native display of line numbers, improved) Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-18 16:33           ` line-number-mode at EOB Stephen Berman
2017-07-18 19:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-18 20:38               ` Stephen Berman
2017-06-25  9:59 ` Native display of line numbers, improved martin rudalics
2017-06-25 13:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-25 15:58     ` martin rudalics
2017-06-25 20:30 ` Alex
2017-06-26  2:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-26  3:43     ` Alex
2017-06-26  3:50       ` Alex
2017-06-26 14:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-26 19:41           ` Alex
2017-06-27 14:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-29 20:25               ` Native line numbers column disappears at times Kaushal Modi
2017-06-30  6:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-10 18:53                   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-10 19:31                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-10 20:56                       ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-26 14:54       ` Native display of line numbers, improved Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-26 15:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 15:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-26 16:12             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-26 16:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-26 19:36             ` Alex

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