Re: How to make emacs display the line number just as vim does?

[Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Zhou <zhouyan1986@gmail.com> writes:

    Matthew> I want to make emacs display the line nubmers in the left
    Matthew> margin of the screen.  Other text editors I am using,
    Matthew> textmate, vim, all have such features.  How to make emacs
    Matthew> do this thing?

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/setnu.el is supposed to do what
you want.  I've never used it, though, so I don't know how well it
works.
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