On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:52 AM Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:
 
> > The latter.  Or maybe no number at all.
>
> I'm used to a negative sign, but it's logically redundant so omitting a
> minus and going with a positive counting backwards would be perfectly
> fine.

Negative would be more of a change.

As for going for a positive backwards (passing throught 0), it's easy to implement.

>> Nothing: these modes are incompatible with the offset mode.
> Agreed.

Ok.

>> We could say that using the offset implies display-line-numbers-widen.
>
> I never thought or happen to be in this scenario so far.
> Implying d-l-n-widen makes sense as a starting point.
>
> I could play around and see.

Ok.

I have a bit of an implementation. Give me a few hours. Also, I just broke bootstrapping :-(