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 line numbers display and tab stops Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:31:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83r2y9thqb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838tkivj1i.fsf@gnu.org> <20170623175009.GA3295@acm> <834lv6v2bs.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498325555 9002 195.159.176.226 (24 Jun 2017 17:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 24 19:32:31 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 1dOov7-0001y0-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 19:32:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOovC-00082u-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOouc-00082o-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOouZ-0002Gx-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOouZ-0002Gr-Jb; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1944 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dOouY-0007bP-Rp; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:31:55 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:27:46 -0700) 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:215937 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:27:46 -0700 > Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > EZ> When you switch on line numbers, text of all lines is pushed to the right, > EZ> but tab stops are left in the same horizontal position. They are all left > EZ> at that position, so they still line up. > > Not having tried it, but that does sound counter-intuitive at first glance... I eventually convinced myself that this should be fixed, but I only did that for the case of line-number display. Other use cases, like line-prefix, remain unchanged.