Re: Native line numbers landed on master

[Ergus]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:45:30AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 03:51:29 +0200
> > Cc: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>, Robert Pluim <address@hidden>,
> >         Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
> > Ergus <address@hidden>,
> >         Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> >
> > > Can we add a line number offset?
> > >
> > > display-line-number-offset
> > >
> > > As a signed integer which gets added the current number, defaulting to
> > > 0.
> >
> > That's a different feature.
>
> Indeed.
As a different feature this should be in a different
branch||patch||commit please.

> > I don't understand the semantics.
>
> I can suggest easy solutions:
>
> > - If you set it to a negative number (as you'll do, to compensate for the 
> > headers), what number will had
> > previous lines: negative (which is currently unsupported), or positive going 
> > backwards?
>
> The latter.  Or maybe no number at all.
>
> > - What do you want to do when in relative/visual modes?
>
> Nothing: these modes are incompatible with the offset mode.
We should document that for the absolute numeration
(display-line-numbers t) in the manual and when defining DEFVAR_LISP
"display-line-numbers" right?


About the names I like the major/minor approach more than M/N.