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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs pretest: highlight line number in display-line-numbers-mode?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:42:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efpxddvj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500834a0-85c0-4b8e-a6bc-71c9d925803a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:18:02 -0700 (PDT))

> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:18:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> > > I'd vote for having the current line face have a background colour
> > > set.
> > 
> > By default?  Why do you need it by default?  What's wrong
> > with lettng users customize that as they see fit?
> 
> We've already answered that:

Who are 'we"?  I was answering to Robert.

> It is not obvious that they have that possibility.  They can't see
> that there are two different faces involved, with the default
> behavior.

Yes, you already said that, it wasn't convincing the first time.  The
documentation exists for a reason.

> The second reason is that showing which line is current
> is helpful.  Anyone who is annoyed by seeing that can
> opt out, customizing the current-line face to look the
> same as the other-line face.

There are several features that show the current line, all of them
optional.  I see no reason to make that on by default now, and in any
case this is a separate issue.  IOW, if you are lobbying for making
the line-number-current face be distinct by default for this reason,
you will have first to convince that making the current line stand out
by default is a good idea.  (And the place to make that argument is
not here.)



  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-20 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19 15:19 Emacs pretest: highlight line number in display-line-numbers-mode? Sivaram Neelakantan
2017-10-19 15:37 ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-19 17:18   ` Drew Adams
2017-10-19 20:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<834lquew6p.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-10-19 20:43       ` Drew Adams
2017-10-20  6:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-20 13:49           ` Robert Pluim
2017-10-20 14:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <<87mv4mexpo.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <<83h8utdgcq.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-10-20 15:18               ` Drew Adams
2017-10-20 15:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]         ` <<83376ee39c.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-10-20 15:18           ` Drew Adams
2017-10-20 15:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<krpqx3tvyv413v.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found] <<<krpqx3tvyv413v.fsf@gmail.com>

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