From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacing linum-mode by nlinum-mode
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbo51uhkq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0bc1070-d8fe-444a-94f6-451b3a7fb36c@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:53:13 -0700 (PDT)")
> If you want to "maximize backward compatibility", why rename anything?
> Why not just use nlinum functions wherever you want, in place of linum
> functions? Why gratuitously change user code at the same time?
> (To be clear, I don't knowingly use either, and I have no code that
> does. My question has nothing to do with my personal use of Emacs.)
Because the main reason to install nlinum-mode is to fix the bugs of
linum-mode, so users of linum-mode will only benefit from those
bug-fixes if they get transparently "upgraded" to nlinum-mode.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 1:02 Replacing linum-mode by nlinum-mode Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 1:53 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-14 2:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-14 2:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-14 12:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-14 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 15:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-14 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 16:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-19 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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