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: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 10960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, l26wang <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#10960: linum-mode does not work properly when changing font size
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:28:52 -0500

>> OK, let me ask specific questions then:
> In the thread of bug#1255 Stefan already answered what amounts to YES, NO.

Indeed.

> 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-*.

You mean, that text-scale-* makes the problem more common significant?
Maybe so, yes.  But I don't think that just special-handling
text-scale-* would be a good solution.  We need some more general way to
adjust the size of the margin to the size of the images&text displayed
there, so as to handle non-default faces, proportional text, ...


        Stefan
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