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Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] |
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Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:06:48 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) |
Mark Lillibridge <address@hidden> writes:
>> Moreover, I'm not sure I see the problem that is grave enough to
>> justify this. The 3 examples you mentioned can be solved by
>> programming the features to do what you want (I believe font-lock
>> already solved it, albeit not too elegantly). I understand now the
>> difference between two classes of use of restriction (thanks to all
>> who labored to explain that to this old fart), but are there
>> _practical_ use-cases where the current situation gets in our way so
>> badly that such a new feature would be justified? I wonder.
>
> Personally, the problem I need fixed is that goto-line and linum
> mode number lines inconsistently. Given that linum mode already
> numbers the first line of a restriction starting with one and Info
> mode looks weird if we start numbering at the beginning of the
> physical buffer, I think the minimal change would be to change
> goto-line to number lines so that the first line of the current
> restriction is 1.
I repeat my suggestion to let clone-indirect-buffer be able to clone
just part of a buffer. Using this for info nodes and tar subfiles would
yield perfectly consistent behavior for the user without narrowing.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], (continued)
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Mark Lillibridge, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Lennart Borgman, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Mark Lillibridge, 2010/04/21
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042],
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/22
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juri Linkov, 2010/04/22