Re: Colorful line numbers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 22.07.2022 15:38, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Also seehttps://debbugs.gnu.org/36472.
> Have you tried to add such a feature for `(n)linum-mode`?

I didn't: that's not what the diff-hl user was asking for.

But I proposed several different technical approaches, every one of 
which has been rejected so far. And not because of the difficulty of 
implementation.

Not sure how implementing any of them in nlinum would help, given that 
the primary complaint was about running Lisp.

And if we take an alternative approach (display-line-numbers-mode looks 
up text properties in the buffer to determine which face to use), it 
also depends on the intricacies of its implementation. E.g. how to 
reliably redraw when such text properties change.