From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs pretest: highlight line number in display-line-numbers-mode? Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:42:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83efpxddvj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <>> <<87a80ntah3.fsf@gmail.com> <25a064f1-c267-49f7-a8de-b28baee928ac@default>> <834lquew6p.fsf@gnu.org>> <0da3bf1b-7d66-4462-8097-e9afe759e99d@default> <83376ee39c.fsf@gnu.org>> <<87mv4mexpo.fsf@gmail.com>> <<83h8utdgcq.fsf@gnu.org>> <500834a0-85c0-4b8e-a6bc-71c9d925803a@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508514224 24102 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2017 15:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:43:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 20 17:43:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1e5ZSL-0004KL-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:43:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5ZST-0001cy-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40635) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5ZS0-0001cr-2W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5ZRx-0003sd-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e5ZRw-0003sX-TJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2896 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e5ZRw-00047y-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:43:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <500834a0-85c0-4b8e-a6bc-71c9d925803a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:18:02 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114592 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:18:02 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > > > 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.)