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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:29:36 +0300

> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:08:06 +0000
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Is there any reason to keep linum.el around any longer, or could it be
> marked obsolete in favor of `display-line-numbers-mode'?

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.
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