Re: Emacs26: Quick thoughts on display-line-numbers-mode

[Matthew Plant]

Yes, I should have read the comment literally right above the line I suggested 
changing. 
I didn’t mean to offer that snippet as a solution, just as a suggestion for 
anyone compiling themselves. I would be more formal otherwise.
If I understand the problem correctly, since orientation depends on paragraph, 
does that mean line numbers could be on different sides in the same window?
I think I have an approach for fixing this

> On Oct 6, 2017, at 12:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: Matthew Plant <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:09:39 -0700
>> 
>>> There's a technical problem with doing that, for which I didn't have
>>> a
>>> solution at the time and still don't.  Such an option would also slow
>>> redisplay, albeit in minor ways.
>>> 
>> For now, you can go to src/xdisp.c:20996 and change the line:
>>    strcat (lnum_buf, " ");
>> to  
>>   strcat (lnum_buf, "|");
> 
> The problem with this is that in R2L paragraphs the glyph should
> _precede_ the number, i.e. be to the left of the number.  And when the
> number is generated for the first line to be redrawn, the paragraph
> direction was not yet computed.  This is the technical problem to
> which I alluded.  Until I find a way to solve it, such solutions
> cannot be accepted, sorry.
> 
>> Although I think I like the pipe character better than the space.
> 
> That definitely depends on the font you are using.  Some fonts have an
> extremely ugly pipe glyphs.  So this will have to be another
> customization option, not just a hard-coded character.