GNU bug report logs - #20674
linum-mode overwrites existing margin width

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello <at> paulwrankin.com>

Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:37:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 20674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello <at> paulwrankin.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20674: linum-mode overwrites existing margin width
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 14:32:56 +1000

On Thu, 28 May 2015, at 01:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I think linum-mode is incompatible with any other means of putting
> anything inside the display margins, because it actually writes
> there.  The width of the margin is just the tip of the iceberg,
> because at best you will have margins whose contents are overwritten
> by linum-mode.

The incompatibility was found in a minor mode I maintain called
olivetti.el, which only sets the window margin widths in order to centre
the text body, it does not display anything within the margins.

In theory, linum-mode.el should be compatible with because it should
only require increasing the margin width on an as-needed basis.
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