On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>>> I don't think that's going to be sufficient: you'll probably at least
>>>>> also want to remove the
>>>>>        (add-hook 'change-major-mode-hook 'linum-delete-overlays nil t)
> [...]
>>> minor-modes should be made permanent-local), but we need a proper patch
>>> for it.
>> How about also removing adding linum to change-major-mode-hook?
>
> Yes, that's what I suggested, isn't it?

I was not quite sure.

> Please write a patch, test it (after removing the workarounds you
> currently use), and send it here.


Attached the patch. There are some other changes to linum.el too.

The handling in after-change-functions was not optimal. Maybe the doc
string for these hook should explain a bit more about how to use it?