Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting

[Joseph Garvin <joseph.h.garvin@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > So a few people requested this feature, and I started thinking about
> > its implementation.  Immediately I bumped into several issues that I'm
> > not sure how to resolve, since I don't really understand how this will
> > be used in Emacs.
>
> Indeed, it's non-trivial.  E.g. if it's used for things like "go up
> N lines", then it's important to make sure that the notion of "visual
> line" is exactly the same for the "go up N lines" command as it is for
> the line-number display code.


I take it for granted when using emacs that there is some configuration
work involved. As long as there is a function I can bind for up/down that
matches the the relative line numbering, it's not super important to me
that they automatically are synced somehow. FWIW, visual line mode
automagically rebinds the navigation keys already, so if the relative line
numbering was just labeling the lines as visual line mode renders them,
rendering and input should line up.

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