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bug#16006: 24.3; *grep* fails to display line numbers with global-linum-
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Mark Lillibridge |
Subject: |
bug#16006: 24.3; *grep* fails to display line numbers with global-linum-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:27:47 -0800 |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > Note that only the first four lines of the *grep* buffer have line
> > numbers when all the visible lines should have line numbers. Switching
> > to the new *grep* buffer dones make the line numbers appear.
>
> Indeed linum.el suffers from various corner case problems. Maybe this
> one is fixed in Emacs trunk, or maybe it can be fixed. But the
> implementation technique used by linum.el has proved over the years to
> lead to many such corner case issues.
>
> I suggest you try out nlinum.el (available in GNU ELPA) which provides
> basically the same functionality as linum.el but using a different
> implementation approach, which is more robust.
Very nice! Does not suffer from this bug. I will play with it
more. Add the following in order to get a global mode:
(define-globalized-minor-mode global-nlinum-mode nlinum-mode nlinum-on)
(defun nlinum-on ()
(unless (minibufferp)
(nlinum-mode 1)))
- Mark