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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:14:38 +0300

> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:50:18 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
>   [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> In (info "(emacs) Acknowledgments") there is reference to:
> 
>    • Markus Triska wrote ‘linum.el’, a minor mode that displays line
>      numbers in the left margin.
> 
> So if you are taking package out, consider that such reference may
> confuse new users.

Sorry, no.  We won't rewrite the history.  (And I don't think new
users will hurry up to read that section anyway.)