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Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:16:11 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> So a few people requested this feature, and I started thinking about
> its implementation.  Immediately I bumped into several issues that I'm
> not sure how to resolve, since I don't really understand how this will
> be used in Emacs.

Indeed, it's non-trivial.  E.g. if it's used for things like "go up
N lines", then it's important to make sure that the notion of "visual
line" is exactly the same for the "go up N lines" command as it is for
the line-number display code.


        Stefan




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