[Emacs-diffs] Re: Changes to emacs/man/screen.texi

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

> +This is present when Line Number mode is enabled (it normally is).
> +You can display the current column number too, by turning on Column
> +Number mode.  It is not enabled by default because it is somewhat
> +slower.  @xref{Optional Mode Line}.

IMO, it is simply not true that "column number is slower" -- I have never
seen any noticable slowdown as an effect of having column number mode
turned on (I have that all the time).

IMO, it should be on always.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk