bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode

[Mattias Engdegård]

26 jan. 2022 kl. 15.09 skrev Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>:

> 1) When you display the column, shouldn't you display the line, too?

It's probably because Emacs traditionally displays the line but not the column 
number in the mode line. The reason for that, in turn, is that updating the 
column number for each typed character makes Emacs less usable over a slow 
serial line (like 1200 bit/s).

These outdated assumptions should be clearly be reconsidered but meanwhile 
perhaps we'd better keep the column number in C-x =. What do you think?

> 2) Should the percentage be included when point position is included?

That percentage smelled "included because we could" from afar. It's not very 
useful; the current/maximum point positions give the user a good idea how far 
in the buffer he is.

> 3) As the output may become lengthy, will the minibuffer extend to multiple 
> lines

Yes. The aim is to make this fairly rare with an 80-column frame width, not to 
prevent it outright.