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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-07-08 10:49:36 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-07-08 10:49:36 +0300
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Support display of line numbers natively
This merges branch 'line-numbers'. * src/buffer.c (disable_line_numbers_overlay_at_eob): New function. * src/lisp.h (disable_line_numbers_overlay_at_eob): Add prototype. * src/dispextern.h (struct it): New members pt_lnum, lnum, lnum_bytepos, lnum_width, and lnum_pixel_width. * src/indent.c (line_number_display_width): New function, refactored from line-number width calculations in vertical-motion. (Fvertical_motion): Call line_number_display_width when the width of line-number display is needed. (Fline_number_display_width): New defun. (syms_of_indent): Defsubr it. * src/indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Help C-n/C-p estimate correctly the width used up by line numbers by looking near the window-start point. If window-start is outside of the accessible portion, temporarily widen the buffer. * src/term.c (produce_glyphs): Adjust tab stops for the horizontal space taken by the line-number display. * src/xdisp.c (display_count_lines_logically) (display_count_lines_visually, maybe_produce_line_number) (should_produce_line_number, row_text_area_empty): New functions. (try_window_reusing_current_matrix): Don't use this method when display-line-numbers is in effect. (try_window_id, try_cursor_movement): Disable these optimizations when the line-number-current-line face is different from line-number face and for relative line numbers. (try_window_id, redisplay_window, try_cursor_movement): For visual line-number display, disable the same redisplay optimizations as for relative. (x_produce_glyphs): Adjust tab stops for the horizontal space taken by the line-number display. (hscroll_window_tree): Adjust hscroll calculations to line-number display. (DISP_INFINITY): Renamed from INFINITY to avoid clashes with math.h; all users changed. (set_cursor_from_row): Fix calculation of cursor X coordinate in R2L rows with display-produced glyphs at the beginning. (display_line): Use should_produce_line_number to determine whether a line number should be produced for each glyph row, and maybe_produce_line_number to produce line numbers. Don't display line numbers in the minibuffer and in tooltip frames. Call row_text_area_empty to verify that a glyph row's text area is devoid of any glyphs that came from a buffer or a string. This fixes a bug with empty-lines indication disappearing when line numbers or line-prefix are displayed. (syms_of_xdisp) <display-line-numbers, display-line-numbers-widen> <display-line-number-width>: New buffer-local variables. <display-line-numbers-current-absolute>: New variable. * lisp/cus-start.el (standard): Provide customization forms for display-line-numbers and its sub-features. * lisp/faces.el (line-number, line-number-current-line): New faces. * lisp/frame.el: Add display-line-numbers, display-line-numbers-widen, display-line-numbers-current-absolute, and display-line-number-width to the list of variables that should trigger redisplay of the current buffer. * lisp/menu-bar.el (menu-bar-showhide-menu): Add menu-bar item to turn display-line-numbers on and off. (toggle-display-line-numbers): New function. * lisp/simple.el (last--line-number-width): New internal variable. (line-move-visual): Use it to adjust temporary-goal-column when line-number display changes its width. * doc/emacs/basic.texi (Position Info): Add cross-reference to "Display Custom", for line-number display. * doc/emacs/custom.texi (Init Rebinding): * doc/emacs/modes.texi (Minor Modes): Remove references to linum-mode. * doc/emacs/display.texi (Display Custom): Describe the line-number display. * doc/lispref/display.texi (Size of Displayed Text): Document line-number-display-width. * etc/NEWS: Document display-line-numbers and its customizations.
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** You can now provide explicit field numbers in format specifiers.
For example, '(format "%2$s %1$s" "X" "Y")' produces "Y X".
-+++
** 'comment-indent-function' values may now return a cons to specify a
range of indentation.
++++
+** Emacs now supports optional display of line numbers in the buffer.
+This is similar to what linum-mode provides, but much faster and
+doesn't usurp the display margin for the line numbers. Customize the
+buffer-local variable 'display-line-numbers' to activate this optional
+display. If set to t, Emacs will display the number of each line
+before the line. If set to 'relative', Emacs will display the line
+number relative to the line showing point, with that line's number
+displayed as absolute. If set to 'visual', Emacs will display a
+relative number for every screen line, i.e. it will count screen lines
+rather than buffer lines. The default is nil, which doesn't display
+the line numbers.
+
+In 'relative' and 'visual' modes, the variable
+'display-line-numbers-current-absolute' controls what number is
+displayed for the line showing point. By default, this variable's
+value is t, which means display the absolute line number for the line
+showing point. Customizing this variable to a nil value will cause
+Emacs to show zero instead, which preserves horizontal space of the
+window in large buffers.
+
+Line numbers are not displayed at all in minibuffer windows and in
+tooltips, as they are not useful there.
+
+The new face 'line-number' is used to display the line numbers. The
+new face 'line-number-current-line' can be customized to display the
+current line's number differently from all the other line numbers; by
+default these two faces are identical.
+
+You can also customize the new variable 'display-line-number-width' to
+specify a fixed minimal with of the area allocated to line-number
+display. The default is nil, meaning that Emacs will dynamically
+calculate the area width, enlarging or shrinking it as needed.
+Setting it to a non-negative integer specifies that as the minimal
+width; selecting a value that is large enough to display all line
+numbers in a buffer will then keep the line-number display area of
+constant width at all times, if that is desired.
+
+Lisp programs can disable line-number display for a particular screen
+line by putting the 'display-line-numbers-disable' text property or
+overlay property on the first character of that screen line. This is
+intended for add-on packages that need a finer control of the display.
+
+Lisp programs that need to know how much screen estate is used up for
+line-number display in a window can use the new function
+'line-number-display-width'.
+
+Linum mode and all similar packages are henceforth becoming obsolete.
+Users and developers are encouraged to switch to this new feature
+instead.
+
* Editing Changes in Emacs 26.1