Re: Replacing linum-mode by nlinum-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> If you want to "maximize backward compatibility", why rename anything?

> Why not just use nlinum functions wherever you want, in place of linum
> functions?  Why gratuitously change user code at the same time?

> (To be clear, I don't knowingly use either, and I have no code that
> does.  My question has nothing to do with my personal use of Emacs.)

Because the main reason to install nlinum-mode is to fix the bugs of
linum-mode, so users of linum-mode will only benefit from those
bug-fixes if they get transparently "upgraded" to nlinum-mode.


        Stefan