Summary: | Display line number and column in status bar | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | jez9999 |
Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | dgp-mail, heiko.tietze |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150375 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123083 |
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
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Bug Blocks: | 86066 |
Description
jez9999
2022-08-27 11:49:20 UTC
(In reply to jez9999 from comment #0) > As far as I can tell, there's no way to get LibreOffice Writer to display > the cursor's current line number and column in the status bar, as many text > editors do. This is frequently very useful information. Please add it. Thank you for enhancement request. I have some questions: a) The tool "line numbering" excludes tables, so could you please specify, wah do you mean by "columns"? I don't think, it would be a goog idea, to have a different line numbering, than in the "line numbering" tool. b) "as many text editors do" => Could you give some examples c) "This is frequently very useful information". I've never missed that information. Could you please give some use cases? Thank you. => NEEDINFO a) Well, it's available in Microsoft Word (right-click status bar, check Line Number and Column), which might suggest it's something appropriate to a word processor. When in a table, Word simply treats each row of the table as a new line, so if the line number before the table is 15, and you have a table with 3 rows, those are displayed as lines 16, 17, and 18 on the status bar. Each column is treated as separate when it comes to column count, so for example the first 3 characters in each cell of the table display as column 1, 2, 3. b) This feature is available in Microsoft Word, Notepad++, EditPad, VS Code, Visual Studio, Vi/Vim, Windows Notepad, and xed... off the top of my head. In fact, it's in virtually everything except Libreoffice Writer. c) If I'm comparing two fixed-width text documents for alignment I might want to quickly check the line/column of a particular character. If I'm trying to limit the line width I might want to know the column of a given character to see how close I am to the width limit I want. If I'm doing ASCII art it might be useful. I'm sure there are plenty of other use-cases. Thank you for quick reply. I think there are aenough informatons now, that design-team can decide about it. Personally I think we should avoid different line numbering in status bar and in text margin. cc: Design-Team You could still do that, and just have the status bar line number displaying blank when the cursor was in a table. It is my proposed solution for bug 150237 respectively bug 150375. Ultimately we should go with a flexible implementation of the current word count feature, so it's a duplicate of bug 123083. Please reopen if you disagree. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 123083 *** Erm, yeah I am reopening because that bug you linked is very unclear as that what it's doing at all. It certainly doesn't mention anything about showing line/column in the status bar. So my take: make the word count more flexible and show alternative document information in the respective status bar panel. Since the use case is unclear, implementing bug 150375 might be a solution too. Does that alternative document information include character column and row, as all the text editors I mentioned above show? (In reply to jez9999 from comment #8) > Does that alternative document information include character column and row, > as all the text editors I mentioned above show? That's your wish. I suggest to realize, if going to be implemented, in this way. |