Re: [Nano-devel] Nano with Line Numbering

[Faissal Bensefia]

On 11/10/16 19:45, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016, at 15:48, Faissal Bensefia wrote:
>> I'm increasingly finding less time
>> to work on this because I've started college (I'm literally doing this
>> in class right now lol), hence why I'm suggesting we get the main
>> functionality done & pushed now and deal with optimisations later.
> 
> There is no hurry to push it.  I have it on a branch, it won't
> go away.  And I'm waiting for other people to give their opinion
> about it -- about how things should look, how they should work.
> Changing this afterward is awkward.
> 
>>> I would like to see how things look without the vertical line
>>> beside the line numbers
>>
>> I highly advise against it, most text editors I use have a line between
>> the two or a difference of colour between the text and the margin for
>> readability,
> 
> I think it will be best to use coloring, like vim does.
> 
> But... how come that computing the margin changes from +3 to +1?
> A difference of 2, when only one character is removed?  Ah!  In
> your lined version the margin is one too big: there's always a
> space before the line number, even before the widest one.  That
> space shouldn't be there -- it wastes space.
> 
> Benno
> 

I'm assuming we're going without the separator line then? Also, when it
comes to color, is there a system for UI colors? Or are you referring to
something like A_REVERSE?

~Faissal Bensefia