bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26.08.2022 14:11, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>  writes:
>
> > The only possible reason is that linum.el allows more freedom in
> > formatting the line numbers and their faces.  I don't know whether
> > this reason is serious enough to not obsolete linum.el.
> I think nlinum is supposed to support everything that linum does (and is
> faster and less buggy) -- but I haven't looked in detail.

Here's one such case when I ended just just recommending to avoid linum:

https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1336