From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:56:00 -0500 Message-ID: <86bmpjyl0f.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497891417 24430 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2017 16:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:56:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 18:56:51 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 1dMzys-0005ti-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:56:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMzyx-0000Lw-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMzyH-0000Kk-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMzyE-0002G5-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp153.ord.emailsrvr.com ([173.203.6.153]:35469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMzyE-0002Bh-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp20.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp20.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8314FA0113 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp20.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id 403EDA0181 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-GCM-SHA256) by 0.0.0.0:587 (trex/5.7.12); Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:56:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2017 18:12:00 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.203.6.153 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:215783 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > However, many users want line numbers to be displayed in Emacs. I > don't know why they want it, perhaps they were "spoiled" by other IDEs > or something. The only time I used line numbers in Emacs was to prepare a paper printout for a code review; for that, line numbers are essential. Later, I always did code reviews on a terminal, so line numbers were not needed. But it does raise the question; with the display engine line numbers be printed if the buffer is printed? -- -- Stephe