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[PATCH] Implement display-line-numbers-spacing-width

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From: Miro Palmu <email <at> miropalmu.cc>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 76566 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76566: [PATCH] Implement display-line-numbers-spacing-width
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:56:34 +0200

> And you cannot achieve that by customizing the line-number face to use
> a font where the SPC character is thin enough for your taste?

Did not think of this. Thanks.

> In any case, disabling the spaces and controlling how many spaces are
> there are not the same: the former is just a boolean flag, whereas the
> latter is more complex, and the code will be slower.  This mode was
> implemented in the display engine to solve the performance impact of
> linum-mode, so I'm not very fond of adding hair to it and slowing it
> down.  People who want fancy customization of the line numbers can
> simply use linum-mode.


Understandable.


Miro Palmu

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