From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native line numbers landed on master Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:45:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83wodl54yt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834l4xbfmp.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef414dfn.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> <83o9359w3l.fsf@gnu.org> <83eezycce5.fsf@gnu.org> <87muekj0i9.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> <87d0fgagjl.fsf@gnus.org> <20191001225254.mwjnxlynjdc3mz7y@Ergus> <83lfu389vn.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftk9v4kx.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="43607"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, rpluim@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, wavexx@thregr.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 04 09:47:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iGIJJ-000BAQ-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:47:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iGIJH-0000Gd-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iGIHa-0000GK-Ew for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iGIHZ-0004fE-Gs; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4209 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iGIHY-0007Lx-Lp; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 03:45:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 4 Oct 2019 03:51:29 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:240548 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 03:51:29 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Kangas , Robert Pluim , > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Eli Zaretskii , Ergus , > Emacs developers > > > Can we add a line number offset? > > > > display-line-number-offset > > > > As a signed integer which gets added the current number, defaulting to > > 0. > > That's a different feature. Indeed. > I don't understand the semantics. I can suggest easy solutions: > - If you set it to a negative number (as you'll do, to compensate for the headers), what number will had > previous lines: negative (which is currently unsupported), or positive going backwards? The latter. Or maybe no number at all. > - What do you want to do when in relative/visual modes? Nothing: these modes are incompatible with the offset mode. > - What about narrowing? We could say that using the offset implies display-line-numbers-widen.