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.)
next prev parent 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
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