GNU bug report logs - #35338
Line numbers lost despite line-number-display-limit

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 12:23:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 35338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35338: Line numbers lost despite line-number-display-limit
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 14:33:30 +0800

We read

   line-number-display-limit is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
   Its value is nil

   Documentation:
   Maximum buffer size for which line number should be displayed.
   If the buffer is bigger than this, the line number does not appear
   in the mode line.  A value of nil means no limit.

$ perl -wle 'print "中華民國萬歲" x 99 for 9..99;' >| /tmp/9
$ wc /tmp/9
    91     91 162253 /tmp/9
$ emacs -nw -q /tmp/9
C-v
C-v
C-v...

About halfway through the file it loses track of the line number, which
becomes "L??". No value of LC_ALL will help either.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 91 days ago.

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