Re: Native display of line numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:39:45 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> There's one other thing which surprises me, and apologies if somebody
> else has already mentioned it and I've missed that post.  At least on a
> Linux tty, one character position is "wasted" to the left of the line
> numbers.  Just about everything else I use in this tty environment,
> including the command line, and the emacs master, starts with the first
> character of a line bang up against the edge of the screen.  So why is
> this extra space put in?

The reason is explained in the comments.  In a nutshell, it's a cheaty
solution for a problem for which I couldn't find a better one.  If I
ever will, the extra space will go away.  (I'm surprised that someone
could be sensitive to one less column with today's large screens,
especially after giving up several columns for the numbers.)

> Might this be a case for a user option?

No, sorry.