From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Skilbeck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:18:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20120603181838.GA2517@mark-laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338747535 26132 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2012 18:18:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 18:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andrew Michael Levin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 20:18:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbFO5-00032A-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:18:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbFO5-0000bb-E5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbFO0-0000bW-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbFNy-0008NV-P2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from li357-97.members.linode.com ([178.79.188.97]:49948 helo=mail.iammark.us) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbFNy-0008NL-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.iammark.us (host81-132-125-192.range81-132.btcentralplus.com [81.132.125.192]) by mail.iammark.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15E2FABB1; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:18:40 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 178.79.188.97 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85088 Archived-At: Adding to the previous reply suggesting line-number-mode, there are also packages that show line-numbers *in the buffer* to which people coming from outside Emacs are familiar. Depending on your Emacs version, you may have the Linum package already installed. If so, M-x linum-mode will interest you. Otherwise, you can find it on the internet[1]. That said, I personally find the line-numbers along the left of a buffer somewhat intrusive and unnecessary. The line-number shown in the status area suffices and doesn't take up my precious screen space! [1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/LineNumbers#toc5 On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Andrew Michael Levin wrote: > Hi, > > How can I get line numbers to show up in emacs? > > Andrew > -- - mgsk. if all you young men / were fish in the water how many young girls / would undress and dive after