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bug#13446: 24.2; Fix loop test in linum.el
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#13446: 24.2; Fix loop test in linum.el |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:36:30 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> parens/brackets via `forward-' and `backward-sexp'. If something is
> going to replace linum, I'd be very interested to know whether it fixes
> this problem. Do you happen to know?
The intended replacement is nlinum.el (you can install it via M-x
list-packages). But it is not as hackable as linum.el (nothing
equivalent to linum-before-numbering-hook).
Stefan
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> BTW, in nlinum-mode, the default behavior is half-way between the two:
>> we don't try to accommodate the largest line number there can be
>> (partly to avoid scanning the whole buffer, which can be a performance
>> problem in itself), so we grow the margin only when we display a larger
>> number, but we don't shrink it back when moving back to the beginning of
>> the file with shorter line numbers.