Re: [Nano-devel] Nano with Line Numbering

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016, at 20:22, Faissal Bensefia wrote:
> Ok, I'll just attach the diffs for both my commits then I guess.

Thanks.

After a quick test, it works.  But I don't like the bold -- it attracts
too much the attention.  If it were possible, I would use a greyed-out
tone.  The vertical line is unnecessary, but kind of nice.  (Vim uses
no line, and the color yellow by default for the line numbers.)

Something that doesn't work: run 'src/nano +188,188 doc/faq.html' and
move the cursor up and down and see how things are messed up.

This line-number feature is eminently something that should be togglable:
switch on and off on the fly with an M-... key, just like syntax coloring
and whitespace display.

What is the use case for hexadecimal line numbers?

About the patch itself: the style doesn't match that of nano.  There
should be a space after a comma, spaces around each operator, overlong
lines should be wrapped, opening braces are on the line of the if or else,
braces are only used when needed, the indentation step is four, not two.

What does below comment mean?  What do you want to represent in hex?
  //Wouldn't it be cool if we added an option for hex representation?

You use "#ifndef DISABLE_LINE_NUM", but configure.ac does not contain
anything to allow to disable the line-numbering feature.

In the man page you've added "set linenumbers" at the beginning, but
it should of course be in its alpabetical position.  And the new flags
(in nano.h) you've added somewhere in the middle, but those should be
at the end -- that's how it's done.

And src/revision.h should not be in your patch; it should not be under
version control.

Benno

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