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: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83podttfpy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498418210 31255 195.159.176.226 (25 Jun 2017 19:16:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:16:50 +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 Sun Jun 25 21:16:42 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 1dPD1V-0007Sa-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:16:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPD1V-00043G-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPD1P-00043B-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPD1K-0001Kc-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36821 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPD1K-0001KH-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dPD15-0006Qc-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:16:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ma87YJytM+HVN8a1YUdsUeoioQY= 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:215974 Archived-At: > 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. Stefan