bug#73005: [REGRESSION, BISECTED]: line numbers disappear when pressing `df` in evil-mode

[David Ponce via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On 21/09/2024 11:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Ping! Can we please make some progress here?
> 
>> Cc: 73005@debbugs.gnu.org, Hi-Angel@yandex.ru
>> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:49:34 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:07:35 +0200
>>> Cc: 73005@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> From: David Ponce <da_vid@orange.fr>
>>>
>>> Could it be that a temporary buffer named " *work*" is being used somewhere?
>>> In which case there could be nasty side effects with the same buffer being
>>> used by `with-work-buffer'?
>>
>> In that case, modifying the name used by with-work-buffer should solve
>> the problem, I think.
>>
>> If that doesn't help, either, I guess we do need a reproducer without
>> Evil, if such a beast exists, because the problem might be in Evil
>> itself.  If the problem is not in Evil, coming up with a reproducer
>> will go a long way towards the solution, and might even point out to
>> the culprit.

Hi Eli,

I don't use Evil at all, so I was just speculating on a possible cause.

What I did, however, was search the Evil source code (cloned from
https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil) for a possible occurrence of the
term "*work*" (used as the basis for the buffer names generated by
`with-work-buffer' ), but I didn't find one.  Nor any occurrence of
`string-pixel-width' for that matter.

I'm afraid I don't see how either `with-work-buffer' or
`string-pixel-width' would be involved in this problem.