GNU bug report logs - #10960
linum-mode does not work properly when changing font size

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Le Wang <l26wang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 1255, 8379

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: l26wang <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 10960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10960: linum-mode does not work properly when changing font size
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:18:01 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:38:14 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 10960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, l26wang <at> gmail.com
> 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 16:06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > OK, let me ask specific questions then:
> 
> In the thread of bug#1255 Stefan already answered what amounts to YES, NO.

Maybe I misunderstood, but that's not what I read there.

> The problem with that answer is that it is maximally unhelpful. Every
> package that wants to use the margin will have to be defensively coded
> against text-scale-*.

If every application that uses display margins will have to do that,
Emacs should do that automatically, IMO.  What would be the reasons
not to?
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