From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display window line numbers Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:53:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83v8mo5pp6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86tu2apdio.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83wn745rid.fsf@gnu.org> <867cz474o3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26743"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 06 19:54:23 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p2d5C-0006iC-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:54:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2d4X-0001mV-CI; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2d4W-0001mJ-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2d4V-0006lN-NO; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:53:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=piEONbLPl/eTVC/HWBjCzeZBCRNEKC5XBzByjoi1pEM=; b=KEhIzibFJ1jt 7xtQKYShuMVWcYnXg+WDGh2nzmEMrvtLqlriu4PRe5Avoe91HBChxeamI+uSSPKlgcOHyXy4bMFRq oaPGE/1cCCJmCZLo2Uc4XUX4jglU4Qm/r/fi/cTsXX4FGyqkxaqrJ1KKvGLUxHseIRDIFifrEBFIR pckNRlRcEvhuAPqz9/t5hmtJ+0gGDSxDgcCh+wQmJ+zIMdBYQnk9fdz4cm2JPVyJMG+t4r0ZrQXon 4vZmu3l2twQ3zvY0kG2/g5/p0dnTM5bnDwgTmqlCElllO+01ijM91gx2AlwYRJpXcot0EcahEsumO reOBQtNCfSkrrm0Hb9cNDQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p2d4V-0006y6-6v; Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:53:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <867cz474o3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300979 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > 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.