Btw I get that behavior in emacs 23.1 too Scott
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Marcelo, > > > 4328, exactly the same amount of lines I have in the file. > > Didn't you say that you have 4000 *k* lines? > > Anyway, as Scott mentiones, in emacs 24 the linum packages seems to be > more clever and only creates overlays for the visible area of a buffer. > For example, when opening a file with 1000 lines and enabling > linum-mode, I only have 35 overlays, because only 35 lines are visible > at a time. > > Bye, > Tassilo > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org > >wrote: > > > >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > Wow.. this worked Torsten. Thank you. I wonder why this happens... > >> > >> linum-mode works with overlays to embed the numbers at the beginnig of > >> lines. Overlays are very flexible but not too efficient, you don't want > >> to have too many of them. Looking at linum.el, it seems it already does > >> pooling of overlays in order not to create one overlay for any line, but > >> I'm not sure. Could you please do > >> > >> M-: (length linum-overlays) RET > >> > >> in that large org file with linum-mode enabled and say what it returns > >> to satisfy my curiosity? > >> > >> Bye, > >> Tassilo > >> > >> > >> > >
