Re: Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown.

[Robert Weiner]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Yuri Khan <address@hidden> wrote:

There is no ambiguity between line and column number. Line, as the
most significant item, obviously goes to the left, while the least
significant column goes to the right. Same as hundreds:tens:ones. Same
as /home/myuser/mydir/myfile. Same as year-month-day
hour:minute:second. (Contrary to site.domain.tld though.)

​This is not the way an average user might think.  He'll see the numbers (16,18)​, will have to pause his thinking, will say to himself, is the line number 16 or 18 again.  Wait, let me move the cursor around and check.  Oh, I see now.  He will have wasted his time and broken his train of thought.  I bet it even happens to more advanced users.

If anybody likes explicitly labeled line and column numbers together, I would chime in now if you want to see any near term changes.

So far, I think opinion expressed is split with slightly more people preferring the explicit labeling.

Bob