On Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:57:33 AM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > There is too much discussion about this. I think the current behavior > is OK and does not have enough disadvantage to justify adding yet > another option.
There's a reason there's a lot of discussion about it, though. For those who use relative line numbering this is an important issue. Leaving it in a state that seriously (and negatively) affects a sizeable proportion of those who use it, particularly when the prior behavior did not do this, indicates to me that you may not care much about relative line numbering in general, not that those who use it are indifferent about how it works or that the change is insignificant. I opened screen.c to patch my local copy so it would work the way I want and noticed that the line numbering was consuming a full 6 columns of my 80 column terminal because of this new feature. That is far more than it should. Multiplied across all the users who do or will use relative line numbering, this is by no means an insignificant loss in visible screen area and productivity. I can understand not caring all that much to change (or rather, unchange) a feature that isn't integrated into your personal workflow. However, in all humility I believe it hasn't been discussed enough. It was added without much discussion because when you just hear about it, it sounds like it adds something without really costing anything. In practice, though, it costs quite a bit. This was by no means a small change to the workings of vim, and it removed valuable functionality without offering users a chance to preserve the way it worked before, which was better. In light of that, I think it would be best not to be premature in making judgments about its importance or how acceptable the current state is, even if there are many other things on developers' minds now. Don't you? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
