Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Re: use of vim signs

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:45:51 PM UTC-5, toothpik wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:48:05AM -0700, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > There are plenty of use cases where an absolute line number in the
> > relative column is very useful, and currently the only complaint is "it
> > makes my number column a few characters wider and I don't like that".
>
> I guess my 'redundant and distracting and mis-aligned' is chopped
> liver
>

No, it's useful feedback, but there are constraints on the solution:

1. Don't remove support for the line number in place of zero entirely
2. No new options specifically to control this feature

Personally I thought Bram pulled the trigger on than absolute line number thing before consensus was reached on how it should work. But patches speak louder than words either way.

I like the proposal by "glts" myself:

> - ":set nonu nornu" means: I don't want any line numbers;
> - ":set nu nornu" means: I want to see only absolute numbers;
> - ":set nonu rnu" means: I want to see only relative numbers;
> - ":set nu rnu" means: I want to have the best of both worlds.

Christian, what is the problem you have with this approach?

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