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Please make linum-mode per buffer, not per major mode

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6871: Please make linum-mode per buffer, not per major mode
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:29:42 +0200

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>>> I don't think that's going to be sufficient: you'll probably at least
>>>>> also want to remove the
>>>>>        (add-hook 'change-major-mode-hook 'linum-delete-overlays nil t)
> [...]
>>> minor-modes should be made permanent-local), but we need a proper patch
>>> for it.
>> How about also removing adding linum to change-major-mode-hook?
>
> Yes, that's what I suggested, isn't it?

I was not quite sure.

> Please write a patch, test it (after removing the workarounds you
> currently use), and send it here.


Attached the patch. There are some other changes to linum.el too.

The handling in after-change-functions was not optimal. Maybe the doc
string for these hook should explain a bit more about how to use it?

[linum-multi-major.diff (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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