GNU bug report logs - #24169
25.1.50; Line numbers disappear when horizontally scrolled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 24169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 24169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#24169: 25.1.50;
 Line numbers disappear when horizontally scrolled
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 21:09:25 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:52:06 -0400
> Cc: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>, 24169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Wouldn't it be simpler to put the overlay over the whole line, so it
> doesn't need to be moved?

How do you do that, given that display in the margins is a "replacing"
display: it is done _instead_ of the text covered by the property?
Linum-mode uses a before-string to avoid losing buffer text due to
that, and I don't see how you would do that "over the whole line".  Am
I missing something?
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