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bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?
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Colin Baxter |
Subject: |
bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete? |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:17:47 +0100 |
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>>>>> Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <Stefan>
>>>>> writes:
> Colin Baxter [2022-08-26 20:00:40] wrote:
>> Yes, I understand that and agree. From my perspective, I am
>> disappointed that candidates for obsolescence seem to be chosen
>> from libraries that are useful and not from morse, zone and the
>> like.
> Those that are useful but suffer from corner-case problems due to
> the underlying design are bound to fall into this trap: if they
> weren't very useful, noone would bother to reimplement them to fix
> those corner cases but since the problems stem from the underlying
> approach, the fix requires a significant rewrite which inevitably
> leads to a slightly different featureset.
> The purpose of obsoleting a library like `nlinum.el` is to
> help/encourage people to move to the better options out there (and
> sometimes also to discover important use-cases not yet covered by
> the new code).
> The maintenance cost of `nlinum.el` isn't very high, but there's a
> cost for users of having to choose between various options, none
> of which is a strict superset of the other.
I am not convinced. However thank you nevertheless for taking the time
and effort to explain.
Best wishes,
bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?, Drew Adams, 2022/08/26