From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: line-number-mode at EOB Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:15 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <44e6c16a-ee9f-0d02-7535-e38532c6d1b7@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83tw35thxw.fsf@gnu.org> <87tw35cc70.fsf@rosalinde> <83injktb9p.fsf@gnu.org> <87k240xhk6.fsf@rosalinde> <87k236vh7p.fsf_-_@rosalinde> <878tjlc04f.fsf@rosalinde> <83bmohdcid.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500582360 29557 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2017 20:26:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:26:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 20 22:25:55 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 1dYI1C-0007Fi-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYI1G-0002wQ-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYI0h-0002w9-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYI0c-0004zt-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:35752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYI0c-0004zY-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC0316023F; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id nKEk6d0tlSno; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F6E16023B; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 2ewzsnQCSWwN; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB736160239; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:216905 Archived-At: On 07/18/2017 08:04 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> But there's no line there. > That's a philosophical opinion. > There's enough of a line to display a cursor, apparently. > More important, it's enough of a line so that (replace-regexp "^" "X") inserts three "X"s in a 2-line buffer. Which is something that has *always* annoyed me. Putting a line number after the last line would be almost as annoying.