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: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376447740 12084 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 02:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 02:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 04:35:41 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 1V9Qvy-00016K-US for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Qvy-0000YM-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Qvo-0000Q0-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Qvh-0006Mw-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:20657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Qvg-0006Ms-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:21 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDo0sg14DpHqBXoMTgUw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDo0sg14DpHqBXoMTgUw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="21776412" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([75.119.243.106]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Aug 2013 22:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C850CAE1D9; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:35:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:53:13 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:162694 Archived-At: > 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