Subject: Re: bug#58220: global-linum-mode emacs29

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:08:32 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], Gwang-Jin Kim <[email-masked]>,
>  Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 01:38:16 +0200
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
> >
> >> 1. (global-display-line-numbers-mode 1)
> >> 2. (progn (package-install 'nlinum) (global-nlinum-mode 1))
> >> 3. (progn (require 'linum) (global-linum-mode 1))
> >>
> >> Maybe we should add the above to NEWS?
> >
> > Makes sense to me.
> 
> Now done (commit 9cb3813550).  I didn't include instructions for how to
> use 'linum', as it's better to just use 'nlinum' in that case.

I'd suggest to include linum as well.  We don't know the users'
preferences, and shouldn't second-guess them in this case.  The notes
about backward compatibilities in NEWS are supposed to help users who
want their old ways no matter what.  These notes do not provide our
preferences and recommendations, because those are apparent from the
defaults.