bug#10960: linum-mode does not work properly when changing font size

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!  Stefan, could you please explain your response?

> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:11:43 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 10960@debbugs.gnu.org, l26wang@gmail.com
> 
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:07:37 -0500
> > Cc: 10960@debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > Le Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is the stackoverflow question:
> > >
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9304192/emacs-linum-mode-and-size-of-font-unreadable-line-numbers
> > 
> > Here is the existing Emacs report
> > 
> > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1255
> 
> I don't understand Stefan's response in that bug: what effect exactly
> are text-scale-* functions supposed to produce?  Should the text in
> the margins be enlarged to the same size as the text in the "text
> area" of the window, or should the text in the margins retain its
> original size?
> 
> And whichever of these two is TRT, why is this considered to be a
> problem in linum-mode, and not in the infrastructure (a.k.a. the
> display engine)?
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