Btw I get that behavior in emacs 23.1 too
Scott


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>wrote:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@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 <tassilo@member.fsf.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@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
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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