From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replacing linum-mode by nlinum-mode Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:18:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376878753 2792 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 02:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 04:19:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VBF3p-0005T9-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:19:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBF3o-0002pH-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBF3d-0002cE-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBF3W-0004pi-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:45836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBF3W-0004pK-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:18:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r7J2InGW028356; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1E85FAE0CA; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:18:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:03:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4674=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4674> : streams <1022135> : uri <1510757> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162863 Archived-At: > But, in any case, a functionality-removing change could only be called > at most a "sidegrade". Also, I seem to remember from the last time we > talked about this, that implementing the missing linum features in > nlinum wasn't exactly trivial, if at all possible. There's no doubt that in some cases it's currently a downgrade. If those can all be fixed, I don't know, but I think the important cases can be fixed. Would you be willing to try and be in charge of the change, then? You seem to have a good grasp of what it would take to make the package good enough to be a real upgrade. I'd provide any help I can, of course. Stefan