bug#28648: Make mode-line number display consistent when both line and col numbers are shown.

[Robert Weiner]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 1:49 PM, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> wrote:

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

But you're right, the mode line can always be customized, so I'm not feeling
too strongly about this.

​Customizing mode-line-format won't help as the string to be modified is embedded in the sub-variable, mode-line-position, which is a standard variable not a customizable option.  So doesn't that mean there is no way for a non-programming user to change the line-col display format and have that change persist across Emacs releases without replicating the whole definition of mode-line-position?

Bob