bug#11496: 24.1.50; Line numbers are not redrawn correctly in linum-mode

[Johan Bockgård]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> You may have more luck with my reimplementation of linum which uses
> jit-lock, which hopefully fixes those problems (tho it may come with
> others of course).

A question:

Why doesn't linum-mode (nor anything else) use
`window-text-change-functions', since that hook was added specifically
to support linum?

(See old threads in emacs-devel.)