GNU bug report logs - #34513
display-line-numbers in term mode

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Message #23 received at 34513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 34513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, spacibba <at> aol.com
Subject: Re: bug#34513: display-line-numbers in term mode
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:33:36 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: spacibba <at> aol.com, 34513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:21:26 -0500
> 
> >> How 'bout display-line-numbers-width or display-line-numbers-current-width?
> > I think I considered those at the time, but found them not descriptive
> > enough.
> 
> And how 'bout now?

Same.

My problem was, and is, that the name should include "display-width",
since that's what the function provides.  And the problem, of course,
is that "display-line-numbers-" already includes "display" and
"line-number", so repeating any of that produces problematic names.

> At first, TAB completion gave me the impression that there was simply no
> way to know from Elisp the actual width, because the list of completions
> seemed long enough to have the appearance of exhaustiveness.

Maybe just mentioning the variable in the doc string of
display-line-numbers-mode would be "good enough".

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