Re: something like linum.el ought to be added

[Stefan Monnier]

> sometimes we can use outline- or hs- and others functions to hide a lot of
> lines.  it seems linum mode create/move overlays for every line between
> window-start and window-end. So even the line is already hide, linum still
> create/move overlay for it. If there are many line hiden within the
> window, it will consume a lot of memory, also impact the
> performance/efficience of the linum mode.  Is it possible to avoid the
> create linum overly for the invisible line? 

Ahem.... can you say "jit-lock"?


        Stefan