Re: Native display of line numbers

[Daniele Nicolodi]

On 18/06/17 20:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:48:41 -0600
>>
>>> Evidently, this impression was based on some misunderstanding.  New
>>> Emacs features are coded in C all the time, e.g. see the recently
>>> added command replace-buffer-contents.
>>
>> Evidently, I was under the impression that the portable dumper idea was
>> rejected mainly on the base that it is coded in C while a possible
>> solution exists taht can be implemented in elisp.
> 
> Dumping is not just any optional feature, it's a feature without which
> Emacs cannot be built, so there are additional considerations in that
> case.

Just to be sure: are you saying that functionality can be implemented in
the Emacs C core as long as this is an optional and not essential?

Cheers,
Daniele