From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line-number-display-limit-width Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:42:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4785BE71.4030101@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199947357 23788 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2008 06:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:42:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 07:42:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCr7t-0002UF-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCr7V-0005tV-OQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCr7I-0005tQ-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCr7H-0005sz-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCr7G-0005sr-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCr7G-0008PD-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2008 06:42:11 -0000 Original-Received: from N874P010.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.53.42]) [62.47.53.42] by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 10 Jan 2008 07:42:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18DR8prPuED13w8udbrLB0oYULvpiYZnzgDuv+GCJ mASiRO+SXL2gOl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50614 Archived-At: > using emacs 21.3 on windows: > > the help file claims I can set var "line-number-display-limit-width", but > there is no such variable. With Emacs 21.3 typing C-h v RET line-number-display-limit-width RET should give you line-number-display-limit-width's value is 200 Documentation: *Maximum line width (in characters) for line number display. If the average length of the lines near point is bigger than this, then the line number may be omitted from the mode line. > do I need to setup that variable? Only if computing the line-number slows down Emacs. With Emacs 22.1 this variable is customizable. > I saw the linum.el, but it displays line numbers in the buffer instead of > the mode line at the bottom. Indeed. linum.el is not related to this.