Subject: bug#27622: Trying to improve the speed of linum-mode

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:06:31 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Time to obsolete linum.el (which now has two replacements)?
>
> Probably.  But do we move it to obsolete right away, or just mark its
> main entry "obsolete"?

I would move it to obsolete, but add a manual autoload so that M-x
linum-mode still works. Cf iswitchb-mode in icomplete.el.