bug#17906: 24.3; nlinum 1.4 error: OpenStep is not in use or not initialized

[Stefan Monnier]

> (require 'nlinum)
> (global-nlinum-mode)

> The bug does not occur in windowed (GUI) mode, but appears quite
> visciously in ncurses (CLI) mode.

Indeed, sorry.  I just pushed the patch below which should appear in
nlinum-1.5 tomorrow and seems to fix the problem.


        Stefan


diff --git a/packages/nlinum/nlinum.el b/packages/nlinum/nlinum.el
index 8719e92..82e274c 100644
--- a/packages/nlinum/nlinum.el
+++ b/packages/nlinum/nlinum.el
@@ -72,12 +72,14 @@ Linum mode is a buffer-local minor mode."
   (aref (font-info (face-font face)) 2))
 
 (defun nlinum--setup-window ()
-  (let ((width (ceiling
-                ;; We'd really want to check the widths rather than the
-                ;; heights, but it's a start.
-                (/ (* nlinum--width 1.0
-                      (nlinum--face-height 'linum))
-                   (frame-char-height)))))
+  (let ((width (if (display-graphic-p)
+                   (ceiling
+                    ;; We'd really want to check the widths rather than the
+                    ;; heights, but it's a start.
+                    (/ (* nlinum--width 1.0
+                          (nlinum--face-height 'linum))
+                       (frame-char-height)))
+                 nlinum--width)))
     (set-window-margins nil (if nlinum-mode width)
                         (cdr (window-margins)))))