Re: Native line numbers landed on master

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:00:55 +0200
>>
>> If I customize line-number-current-line to have a background colour,
>> then when the current line is wrapped, the current line number and the
>> empty space(s) below it have that backround applied. I was hoping to
>> have that apply just to the line number itself.
>
> Are you talking about display-line-numbers set to t, and then about
> the empty field displayed for continuation lines, which show no
> numbers?  Otherwise I don't understand what you mean by "empty
> space(s) below it".

Yes, I mean the empty field.

> If you indeed mean continuation lines, I'd like to hear from others
> what they think about this use case.  Displaying the empty fields in a
> face different from the number itself is some work, but I will do it
> if that's the "popular demand".

I can live with it, it just looks a little jarring when there are
continuation lines.

Regards

Robert