Re: [PATCH] feature: relative line numbers

bsandro <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:46:08 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
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Greetings and thanks for looking at my code!

On 06/30/25, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>Interesting.  I've tried it, but... don't like it.  What is the point
>of relative line numbers when nano does not have the relative movement
>commands that vim has?  Also, I find showing the absolute line number
>for the current line (instead of zero) confusing.

I like it as a helper to quickly judge the length of the block I'm working
at; also it might be just a matter of habits or personal taste.
Absolute line number for the current line is quite handy imo because status
bar with that info is in different screen area in general or might be
disabled altogether.

>So, I'm not going to apply the patch.

Fair enough!

>(An improved version is attached,
>that updates the screen also when 'relativenumbers' is toggled.  Also,
>I've renamed the option to 'relativenumbers', to stay in nano's style:
>no abbreviations in the option names.)

Very nice, thanks! I'll keep that one with my version :D

>But what I might apply is the other attached patch: allow nano to jump
>a relative amount of lines.  Unfortunately, negative numbers already
>mean "from end of buffer", so the patch accepts double signs to mean
>"relative": ++100 will jump a hundred lines forward, --200 two hundred
>lines back.  Anyone interested in having this?

I sure am, looks like a good feature especially to complement what I had
in mind.

-- 
bsandro.

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