* Chris Jones had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 16:22:07 -0500]:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:10:42PM EST, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote:
> > * Chris Jones had this to say on [15 Dec 2009, 15:08:57 -0500]:
> > [snip]
>
> > >
> > > Without additional changes to the code, is there any way I could
> > > display the x,y coordinates of the cursor position as the transient
> > > message does?
> > >
> > > Something like:
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Copy-mode Column xxx, Line yyy
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Useful in contexts where the cursor is difficult to spot. I
> > > sometimes have this problem on some web pages with the ELinks web
> > > browser.
> > >
> > > Naturally, what I mean is the x,y within the page that's displayed
> > > in the view port, not relative to the entire scroll-back buffer.
>
> > Pressing Ctrl+G in copy-mode will show that.
>
> Oh, very useful, and vim-like as well.. very nice.
>
> Although what I had in mind was something that would display permanently
> and that would refresh itself automatically when the cursor is moved,
> similar to Vim's 'statusline' items 'l' and 'v'.
There's nothing in the existing code that will make that happen. From the
earlier mail:
A vim-like caption could indeed be useful. It can be done by, for
example, interpreting the escape sequences differently when in
copy/mode. But I really really don't want that to happen. I think
it'd be much better to leave that kind of thing to scripts (when the
support for that gets a bit more mature).
Cheers,
Sadrul
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