Re: Native display of line numbers, improved

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:59:30 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> 
>  > All the bugs reported till now are fixed, with the sole exception of
>  > truncated-lines display.  The latter behaves better now (in
>  > particular, the funny problem reported by Martin, whereby you couldn't
>  > get to the line beginning, is gone),
> 
> Confirmed.  The speed is quite remarkable, BTW.

Thanks.

> We could think about a slot in the window structure which would control
> line number display for a particular window (including the tooltip and
> minibuffer windows).  We'd need three values: Something like 'always'
> for displaying them unconditionally, nil for respecting the window
> buffer's local value and 'never' for never displaying line numbers in
> that window.

Is there a use case for displaying line numbers in a window rather
than in all windows displaying a specific buffer?

The code is already involved enough, and every additional sub-feature
makes it a bit slower and less clear.  So if there are no valid use
cases for this, I'd like to wait until they come up, before coding
this.