On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> There is no ambiguity between line and column number. Line, as the
> most significant item, obviously goes to the left, while the least
> significant column goes to the right. Same as hundreds:tens:ones. Same
> as /home/myuser/mydir/myfile. Same as year-month-day
> hour:minute:second. (Contrary to site.domain.tld though.)
>

​This is not the way an average user might think.  He'll see the numbers
(16,18)​, will have to pause his thinking, will say to himself, is the line
number 16 or 18 again.  Wait, let me move the cursor around and check.  Oh,
I see now.  He will have wasted his time and broken his train of thought.
I bet it even happens to more advanced users.

If anybody likes explicitly labeled line and column numbers together, I
would chime in now if you want to see any near term changes.
So far, I think opinion expressed is split with slightly more people
preferring the explicit labeling.

Bob