From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown. Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:31:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fub6ugw4.fsf@yandex.com> <878tgxvoyz.fsf@yandex.com> <83r2up5q19.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506713545 28003 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 19:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:32:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 21:32:20 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 1dy11H-0006pk-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:32:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dy11P-00020B-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dy10Z-0001Ve-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dy10V-0007Dt-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:31:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33379 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dy10U-0007Dd-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:31:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dy10G-0001lj-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:31:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:wnNl1Npc1VW5CdTgLFwS0mf4OTU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:218942 Archived-At: > I customize my modeline to display them as nnn:nn. I don't use column-number-mode, but FWIW, I used to use it and at that time I used LLL:CCC indeed, like you. I used ":" because I liked the similarity with the notation used in GNU-standard compilation error messages. I never found it confusing, because when I see 1230:34, I already know that I'm not in column 1230. I give this just as a data point; there's no implied intention to argue in favor of any particular choice. E.g. I can see reasons to avoid LLL:CCC because in some situations it might look confusingly like the HH:MM used in display-time-mode. IIRC the change to (LL,CC) is fairly recent and it was associated with some discussion, so maybe it's worth digging back the corresponding thread(s) to see what were the arguments back then. Stefan