Is it possible to have a "line number column" in emacs?

Is it possible to have a "line number column" in emacs?

[Alex Wang]

Hi, I wonder if it's possible to have a separate column to display line 
numbers in emacs, just like many other editors.

Re: Is it possible to have a "line number column" in emacs?

[Joe Corneli]

 http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/line-num.el

found on

 http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html

haven't tried, but the link is alive.


Description: display line numbers in left-margin of buffer

Re: Is it possible to have a "line number column" in emacs?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 23.03.2005 um 05:48 schrieb Alex Wang:

> Hi, I wonder if it's possible to have a separate column to display 
> line numbers in emacs, just like many other editors.

What is so insufficient with column-number-mode? If you switch it on

	(setq column-number-mode t)

the modeline will contain

-uu-:**-F1  *shell*        Bot (55,13)     (Shell:run)----Mi, 23.Mär 
2005 12:05 0.16 Mail
                                 ^   ^
                line # ----------|   |--------- column #

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Greetings

   Pete

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Re: Is it possible to have a "line number column" in emacs?

[Mathias Dahl]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

>> Hi, I wonder if it's possible to have a separate column to display
>> line numbers in emacs, just like many other editors.
>
> What is so insufficient with column-number-mode?

A bit off-topic maybe:

The poster must not necessarily find column-number-mode insufficient
just because he want a column displaying the line numbers. It all
depends on what you are doing. For example, sometimes I like to use
hl-line-mode to highlight the line I work on, even though you could
argue that you could as well look at what line the cursor is on.

Personally I seldom use what the poster wants, but who am I to say
that I never will need it? I might want to browse source code together
with a colleague and using such a line number column would make it easy
to say things like "Look at row 21, isn't that crazy stuff?", or "What
do you think about the logic for line 48?".

My two cents.

/Mathias