GNU bug report logs - #57412
Could we make linum.el obsolete?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:09:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 57412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:19:59 +0300

On 26.08.2022 14:11, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii<eliz <at> gnu.org>  writes:
> 
>> The only possible reason is that linum.el allows more freedom in
>> formatting the line numbers and their faces.  I don't know whether
>> this reason is serious enough to not obsolete linum.el.
> I think nlinum is supposed to support everything that linum does (and is
> faster and less buggy) -- but I haven't looked in detail.

Here's one such case when I ended just just recommending to avoid linum:

https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1336
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