On May 7, 2019 9:09:23 PM GMT+02:00, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

If you a re thinking about clipping characters on display in some way,
Or maybe we could have an option not to put a number on a screen line
that starts with a display or overlay string.

Not sure what would be the ideal behavior for compact-docstrings (no
line-number?  Truncated line-number?  smaller line-number?), but for
those "text lines turned into thin graphical lines" as in
describe-symbol, *vc-log*, and friends, I think the better behavior
would be to not display a line number at all.

Rather than try and guess it based on the presence of a display/overlay,
maybe we could require a specific text-property like `no-line-number`?


        Stefan
        

BTW: in nlinum-mode (and presumably linum-mode as well), the
     line-numbers are clipped, so I guess this is a difference between
     text-in-the-margin and text-in-the-"main"-area.