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In article <NJ104.93Jan8114221@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> nj104@cus.cam.ac.uk (Neil Jerram) writes:

   As someone has pointed out to me, it's very bad practice for the
   loading of a file to have side effects like the last two lines of
   linenumbers.el --

   (or ln-process
       (ln-start-process))

   -- and makes for trouble if one wants to dump an Emacs including such
   code.  It would be much better therefore to delete these two lines
   from linenumbers.el and insert them in the .emacs file after the
   loading instructions.

Actually, I prefer to autoload stuff; this way I don't have to
wait for loading of every macro package that I may or may not use.
I have the following in my .emacs:

  (autoload 'linenumbers "linenumbers" "line numbers in mode line" t)

In such case, it is actually better to start ln-process from the file.
I believe that these two lines should be part of (linenumber ) function
(so they will check for the presence of the process every time the 
function is called, big deal)
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