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Re: linum.el -- Display line numbers to the left of buffers


From: Leo
Subject: Re: linum.el -- Display line numbers to the left of buffers
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:46:08 +0000
User-agent: No Gnus v0.6, Emacs/22.0.95.6 (2007-03-18), Fedora 6 gnu/linux

On 2007-03-24, Drew Adams said:

> Sometimes, a newer Emacs version offers features that are difficult
> to reproduce in older versions. If a library depends on such a
> feature, then there is no reason for it not to also use other new
> features. But, if other things are equal, why not make the library
> available to more users, by foregoing new features that are not
> really needed and exploited as such?

Another way of looking at it is that it will get more users to use the
newer versions of emacs and help with the development and testing. I
see no reason not to do that.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)





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