Re: Relative line numbering and current line

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:10:32PM -0400, Grant Farnsworth wrote:
> > I've modified my copy of screen.c with the attitude "you can't fight
> > city hall" -- the bad news here is even with the zero back the width
> > of that field stays huge on a big file, even though it dosn't need to
> > -- I probably need to dig some more and find where it gets the width
> > -- dang I hate this

> It sounds like your modifications are the removal of the if blocks
> around lines 2239 and 3510.

exactly

> To fix the width we need to edit the number_width() function and
> replace

> lnum = wp->w_buffer->b_ml.ml_line_count;

> with

> if (wp->w_p_rnu && !wp->w_p_nu)
> lnum = wp->w_height;
> else
> lnum = wp->w_buffer->b_ml.ml_line_count;

> I believe that will revert vim to the previous, cleaner behavior.

cool -- thx

> I worry that asking for other things besides zero (as Bee is) will get
> the whole idea tossed out.

Bram is so busy right now I'm afraid we're on our own.

> On the other hand the absolute number thing seems to have at least a
> couple of fans on the dev list, so having a bunch of different
> possibilities for what gets put where the zero belongs might be more
> likely than getting it reverted.

> It's hard to see relative number users not objecting to the current
> behavior. When I opened screen.c to find this stuff, I counted the
> columns being used. It was 6. That is a lot of wasted screen in an
> 80 column terminal.

> This is my first discussion on vim_use. Perhaps I should have brought
> it up on the vim_dev list instead? I'm not sure it will get noticed
> here.

my bad -- I sort of hijacked another thread here where [I think it was
Charles] mentioned the weirdness of the absolute number in the
relative column and I jumped on that. You're quite right, this
belongs in vim_dev, but I'm not sure enough people care about this
issue that it'll get noticed anywhere.

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