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To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: column.el 
In-reply-to: Your message of "16 Feb 1997 14:36:22 PST."
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:44:13 -0600
From: Chuck Thompson <cthomp@xemacs.org>

    >> (defalias 'display-column-mode 'column-number-mode)
    >> The later is implemented in C and doesn't slow down XEmacs.

    sb> Done.

    sb> Is there any reason we should *not* default to have
    sb> line-number-mode active (or both)?


Unlike column-mode, line-number-mode does come with a performance
penalty.  That is reason enough to leave it off by default.


			-Chuck

