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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display window line numbers
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:53:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8mo5pp6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867cz474o3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200
> 
> > And I don't really see the importance, FWIW: why isn't the 'visual' variety
> > not what you want?  Then "C-u N C-p" and "C-u n C-n" will do what you want.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> `M-N M-p' is easy to type

So is "C-3 C-p" or "C-5 C-n".

> and also it's easier to read numbers incrementally going from top to
> bottom, not in reverse order as 'visual' does for lines before the current
> line.

Very strange to hear that.  Line addressing was always relative to the
current line, back when editors needed that.



      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-06 17:10 Display window line numbers Juri Linkov
2022-12-06 18:04 ` João Paulo Labegalini de Carvalho
2022-12-06 18:43   ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-06 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-06 18:44   ` Juri Linkov
2022-12-06 18:53     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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