Although I should be able to remove all overlays between a modification and
the end of buffer. This however still leaves the case where I simply scroll
through a large buffer, without making changes, and overlays accumulate.

Evgeni


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:37 AM, E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com> wrote:

> The reason I've noticed/reported this bug was because I was working on a
> mode with a similar implementation to linum's, and got the same behavior.
> This is not a linum bug.
>
> On a side note, I would prefer nlinum's approach for my package, but if
> I'm correct it would become slower over time, as it doesn't "GC" overlays.
> And I don't think jit-lock provides an easy method to do it, as it marks
> regions "fontified" (as opposed to "fontified-by-X-function").
>
> Evgeni
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:02 AM, E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> nlinum works correctly.
>>
>> Evgeni
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> > Steps to reproduce:
>>> > Open emacs -Q
>>> > M-: (progn (linum-mode) (hs-mode))
>>> > Insert a block of comments
>>> > M-x hs-hide-block
>>>
>>> Could you test it with nlinum-mode (available from GNU ELPA)?
>>>
>>>
>>>         Stefan
>>>
>>
>>
>