Specify line numbers

[abrudz]

Implementations currently take all kinds of approaches to line numbers:

• Some use ( foreground )
• Some use ( comment )
• Some use ( cyan )
• Some use ( selection ) italic
• Some use ( foreground , selection )
• Some even use ( background , foreground ) ! Please standardise this.

Since the Visual Studio Code implementation is fully compliant, I suspect that the correct choice is ( comment ).

[dsifford]

Valid concern. Curious what the community thinks would be the best option here.

[bigpick]

+1 for comment; looks like that's what's used for vim as well.

Playing around with the colors in vim a bit more, I'd say second best would be comment, but it seems to get harder to read (with my eyes at least) with some amount of transparency on a window (whereas comment seems to fair a bit better when transparency is involved; granted, depends on what you have in the background). Though, could also see the argument that per the spec, Current Line shouldn't show up in a language highlighting at all, so by making the line numbers that color, there shouldn't be any sort of overlap with language highlighting, which may cause less visual distraction.

No Transparency

Comment, non-italic


Comment, italic


Current Line, non-italic


Current Line, italic


Some Transparency

Current Line, non-italic


Comment, italic


Current Line, non-italic


Current Line, italic


... that said, I think I still prefer the low obtrusion but comparatively high legibility that comment provides despite also sharing with in-use colors. Whatever you do, please no background on foreground