> There are thousands of similar but not equivalent ways of doing the same thing, both StackOverflow and the emacs wiki contains some What about the manual? h

> There are thousands of similar but not equivalent ways of doing the same thing, both StackOverflow and the emacs wiki contains some What about the manual? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Display-Custom.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di... The issues you described are mostly totally solved by looking in the manual first rather than externally. > Why oh why couldn't they improve linenum-mode instead of introducing a new mode. The double-edged sword of being very backwards compatible.