"Artur Jachacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:19:35 +0000:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:31:56 -0700, walt wrote: > >> Brad Sims wrote: >>> On the post editor, could we get a line number and column number at the >>> bottom somewhere?... +1 here! >> I always enable that feature in emacs for general-purpose editing, but I >> confess I've never felt the need in a newsreader. Can you share with us >> how/why you would use it? > > > I can share with you how I used it in earlier versions of Pan: sometimes > when I copied text from the Web or other sources into a message, it would > contain characters outside of the character set I used for posting to > Usenet. Upon sending a message Pan would warn me that such an offending > character is located in line X, column Y. Having column and line numbers > at the bottom of the editor window greatly sped up finding those > characters. Unfortunately, the old line/column error didn't work, here, It always said line 1, column 34273 or some such, which clearly wasn't correct! =8^( I believe the problem was likely a 32-bit/64-bit thing, as I'm on AMD64. I always had to either trial&error or visually search for the "strange" character, which often turned out to be in the quote attribution line due to a character not in the configured charset, so it wasn't /quite/ as bad as it could have been. Fortunately, the new-pan choice of UTF-8 means that shouldn't be much of a problem any more. =8^) That said, especially the column count did occasionally come in handy, One use is for things like ascii-art or the like, where noting the column number to get the right number of spaces on the next line can be faster than trying to hit it visually, slowing down as one gets close. Another use is when manually wrapping pasted text, particularly when it's line formatted output you don't want to break up too much and where 100 chars might be acceptable, but where there are a few lines of several hundred chars that you /do/ want to breakup (perhaps with an indent on the continued lines to show it). I didn't use the feature often and hadn't yet missed it, but it was very convenient to have when it /was/ of use, and I'm sure I would have eventually needed it, looked for it, missed it, and filed a request of my own, if this one hadn't come up first. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
