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23.1; linum mode fails to work with Rmail correctly

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Message #10 received at 4878-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
Cc: 4878-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1; linum mode fails to work with Rmail correctly
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:11:17 -0500

> Since I am guessing Rmail is not the only subsystem where one command
> alters a different buffer or only changes a restriction in a different
> buffer, linum should be fixed rather than Rmail.  The safest solution
> is probably to have linum-update-current just update all buffers.
> This strikes me as expensive if there are a lot of buffers, so maybe
> you can find a better solution.

I think this is enough of a corner case that we can patch up Rmail to
call linum-update specially (we can reconsider if more such cases pop
up).  I've checked such a fix into CVS.

Thanks for the bug report.

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