From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" 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 10:49:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83ing177uv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506707395 16813 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 17:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:49:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/26.0 (darwin) Cc: rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 19:49:49 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 1dxzQ3-0003n0-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:49:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36443 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzQB-0003iS-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzPZ-0003iA-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzPZ-0004fz-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzPT-0004e6-HR; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:52603) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dxzPT-0001q1-4v; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51FD21328; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:09 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: zow1fe7n0zvx98nhexJmmCT2aT346P5eRTWrzWHub+na 1506707349 Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 724E87E22C; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7633F98886FD; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:49:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83ing177uv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:06:00 +0300") Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:218922 Archived-At: >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: EZ> We had "Ln Cn" kind of display in Emacs 21 and before, and we changed that EZ> to the current display in Emacs 22.1 (the change itself is from Aug 2002). EZ> Does it really make sense to go back after 15 years? Hmm, that seems odd. "Ln Cn" and "(n,n)" use exactly the same number of characters. But you're right, the mode line can always be customized, so I'm not feeling too strongly about this. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2