From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:29:01 +0300 Message-ID: <837ho6czb6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271498762 19096 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2010 10:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: mark.lillibridge@hp.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 17 12:05:59 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O34uV-0007Vq-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:05:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O34uU-0001CW-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O34uN-0001C9-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54162 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O34uK-0001Bl-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O32T1-0002Km-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:39783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O32Sy-0002KB-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L1000500FB1XX00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:29:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.69.249]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L10003CLFGA2Z80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:28:59 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123800 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:57:26 -0700 > From: Mark Lillibridge > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, markus.triska@gmx.at, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > What do other people think? I'm reluctant to try and make such a > major change as thus without more input. I wanted to provide some input, but found I'm unable to do that, because the proposed change is not described in enough detail, and in particular the description uses terminology it never explains. What are these two ``kinds'' of restriction you are talking about, and how are they relevant to the issue at hand, which is how to number lines when a buffer is narrowed? IOW, the initial message you posted here 2 months ago was clear, but then you switched into a domain where I cannot follow you. TIA