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

[Mattias Engdegård]

29 jan. 2022 kl. 15.32 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

>> For that matter, many users employ the vertical scroll bar as a live
>> approximate position/size indicator. I just wish its height were based
>> on lines instead of characters.
> 
> Yes, that'd be much better.

Presumably we could use heuristics similar to line-number-mode for when to use 
the line numbers and when to fall back to characters, but I'm sure there are 
technicalities to work out. At least the number of lines in the buffer changes 
less often.

> No matter what we do, we're going to annoy some people, so why annoy
> them twice?

Hmmm, aren't we unnecessarily censoring ourselves now? If someone is really 
annoyed by not getting the character at point in octal by default despite that 
the old way is just a defcustom away, then... I don't think we shouldn't let 
ourselves be ruled by that person, should we? (It's not that we are going to 
lose users from the change.)

I'd take it easier on the plan to split the functionality in two commands, 
unless you have a clever idea.