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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete? |
Date: | Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:49:55 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.1 |
On 26.08.2022 11:20, Colin Baxter wrote:
Stefan Kangas<stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:> Severity: wishlist Is there any reason to keep linum.el around any > longer, or could it be marked obsolete in favor of > `display-line-numbers-mode'? > Given our obsoletion policy, it would still be around for another > decade, which should give users plenty of time to adapt. Please do not obsolete this. I do not like display-line-numbers-mode, preferring line numbers in the margin. There must be other users similarly inclined.
Have you tried nlinum-mode from GNU ELPA? I hear it has better performance and apparently fewer bugs.
I do not understand this need to obsolete packages that perform perfectly well. Emacs often has multiple ways of achieving the same outcome, which is surely a positive.
It's good to reduce the volume of code we have to support over time. It would also help people land on a faster and better supported alternative.
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