Re: Line number in mode-line with column-number-mode on in GNU Emacs 23.x

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 25.12.2009 um 20:25 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

> Perhaps the default limit of 200 is too small nowadays, certainly for
> compiling GCC, but you said some lines are tens of thousands of
> characters long, is that right?


Yes, I've seen such long lines, 'though not with GCC (it and QT4 take  
very long to compile, the latter having also very long lines) but with  
X11 related software, particularly such that uses GTK+2 – 20 and more  
shared libraries needed, built from 100 or more object files. Although  
in column-number-mode the line number is erased, the column counter  
still works – and GNU Emacs 23 has the preference to leave the text  
cursor at the lines' ends.

Luckily modern shells support command line lengths of 64 K (wide?)  
characters, maybe even more, so compiling such monster applications  
even works!


OK, I'll send that suggestion!

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