From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs26: Quick thoughts on display-line-numbers-mode Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:09 -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> <83infsv31u.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507296339 11480 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2017 13:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 13:25:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/26.0 (darwin) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 15:25:32 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 1e0Sd9-0002GI-IE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:25:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44926 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0SdG-00061r-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Sd1-0005zi-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Scx-0006ea-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Scw-0006dF-Uq; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:33353) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e0Scw-0006Gh-Ha; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25DC20C47; Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:17 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: al/qDAcBdKFQMGRQrZF75uVE12uuoOZubHOrdTXpDi9x 1507296317 Original-Received: from Hermes.local (168.sub-174-192-21.myvzw.com [174.192.21.168]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1861024813; Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:25:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Hermes.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id A00563288768; Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:25:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83infsv31u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:06:21 +0300") Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:219181 Archived-At: EZ> I don't know. It doesn't strike me as blatantly wrong, to give you just EZ> one data point. I guess we will have to hear more from users. In general, EZ> buffers with changing paragraph direction are quite rare, btw. As someone who edits R2L buffers, I'd prefer line numbers always being on one side of the buffer or the other -- hopefully with an easy way to fix the side, or toggle it depending on what I'm doing. English text with R2L in it is usually a different scenario than R2L with some English in it. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2