From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:28:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83o9tjwzdi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> <20170619183945.GA3187@acm> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497900582 12574 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2017 19:29:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 21:29:31 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 1dN2Mc-0002eU-Kx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:29:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2Mg-00086c-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2M6-00086M-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2M2-0003vr-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2M2-0003vl-9q; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1211 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2M1-00058W-6H; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:28:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170619183945.GA3187@acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:39:45 +0000) 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: 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:215789 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:39:45 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > There's one other thing which surprises me, and apologies if somebody > else has already mentioned it and I've missed that post. At least on a > Linux tty, one character position is "wasted" to the left of the line > numbers. Just about everything else I use in this tty environment, > including the command line, and the emacs master, starts with the first > character of a line bang up against the edge of the screen. So why is > this extra space put in? The reason is explained in the comments. In a nutshell, it's a cheaty solution for a problem for which I couldn't find a better one. If I ever will, the extra space will go away. (I'm surprised that someone could be sensitive to one less column with today's large screens, especially after giving up several columns for the numbers.) > Might this be a case for a user option? No, sorry.