From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87sl92q30d.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> References: <20070605231947.GA2058@muc.de> <853b14q351.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874plkkc3s.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181290392 15029 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 08:13:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 10:13:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwZan-0000WX-AA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:13:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZam-000666-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:13:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZag-00063k-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZaf-00062f-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZaf-00062R-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwZad-0003UE-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 78078 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2007 08:12:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-lx.testafd.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Jun 2007 08:12:51 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 08 Jun 2007 03\:11\:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72469 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Maybe this confusion arises from the fact that currently numbers are > displayed in the order reverse to usual, where the first number in > a pair of coordinates corresponds to the x-axis (Columns), and second - > to the y-axis (Lines). > > That is a good point. Do people think we should swap them? Please don't. When I introduced the new (L,C) format, I looked at a number of other text editors, and they all have line number followed by column number. So that is the conventional sequence. Some examples (line 123, column 45): VIM: 123,45 Emacs 21: L123 C45 Word: Ln 123 Col 45 Nedit: Line 123 Col 45 It is also consistent with grep and compiler output: file:123:45 ... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk