Subject: Re: bug#16692: 24.2; nlinum version 1.2 does not work correctly with indirect buffers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:45:44 +0200

> From: Mark Lillibridge <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:30:48 -0800
> 
>     emacs24 -q
>      ; substitute below path to your copy of nlinum:
>     {esc}: (load "/home/mdl/elisp/nlinum") 
>     
>     {esc}x global-nlinum-mode {enter}
>     {ctrl+x}b *scratch* {enter}
>     
>     {ctrl+x}4c

(Whatever happened to the Emacs convention of specifying keystrokes?)

>     Hit enter multiple times; observe that line numbers for the new
>     lines appear in the original buffer but not the indirect buffer you
>     are currently in.  This is a bug: line numbers should be present for
>     every line in both buffers.

Stefan in help-gnu-emacs:

  My recommendation: stay away from indirect-buffers.
  They are an attractive-nuisance.

See

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-01/msg00575.html