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Subject: Re: line-number-mode is archaic [was: Enhanced design for XEmacs redisplay]
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 05 Sep 1997 22:25:00 +0200
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Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu> writes:

> Any software that makes the user manipulate line numbers leaves
> something to be desired.

XEmacs does not *make* me manipulate line numbers.  Yes, I use things
like C-x ` and such, but I simply want to know the line number.  The
atavism is in me, not Emacs itself.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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