One comment I saw @jack make recently was that they didn't expect displaying follower counts to motivate users to increase the number.
Do we need to show this number on Twitter at all?
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I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline.
I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings.
https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position
This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.
@krinkle A surprising number of PL design workarounds are "just add another equals sign" 🙃