From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:49:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lgkxwg31.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ing177uv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:06:00 +0300")
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
EZ> We had "Ln Cn" kind of display in Emacs 21 and before, and we changed that
EZ> to the current display in Emacs 22.1 (the change itself is from Aug 2002).
EZ> Does it really make sense to go back after 15 years?
Hmm, that seems odd. "Ln Cn" and "(n,n)" use exactly the same number of
characters.
But you're right, the mode line can always be customized, so I'm not feeling
too strongly about this.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-29 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-28 21:56 Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 7:02 ` Colin Baxter
2017-09-29 8:25 ` Jose Arroyo
2017-09-29 9:22 ` Colin Baxter
2017-09-29 13:26 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 16:23 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 17:35 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-29 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 18:26 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-29 18:30 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-29 18:48 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-29 19:17 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 19:30 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-29 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-29 13:14 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-29 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 17:49 ` John Wiegley [this message]
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