From: Andrew Michael Levin <andrew.m.levin@vanderbilt.edu>
To: Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line numbers
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 21:02:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+6A3sGsXZsy0rO4KEHXWzmZ7YfDPX_Q5oG-f2P=guj6tZi89Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120603181838.GA2517@mark-laptop>
Hi,
So, what does
(line-number-mode t) ; show line numbers
do exactly? I added this to my .emacs and I don't see any change even
after I opened a new emacs session in a new terminal.
Andrew
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:
> 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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-03 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-03 17:36 line numbers Andrew Michael Levin
2012-06-03 17:55 ` Michaël Bruneel
2012-06-03 18:18 ` Mark Skilbeck
2012-06-03 19:02 ` Andrew Michael Levin [this message]
2012-06-03 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-04 5:57 ` Bob Proulx
2012-06-04 13:55 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-04 14:56 ` Alp Aker
2012-06-04 15:28 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-04 6:30 ` Jai Dayal
2012-06-04 13:51 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-04 16:07 ` Jai Dayal
2012-06-04 16:15 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-04 16:24 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.2202.1338745946.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-03 19:36 ` Dan Espen
2012-06-04 2:23 ` rusi
2012-06-04 6:23 ` Christian Kellermann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-30 22:11 Gary Wessle
2006-05-01 2:43 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-05-01 3:55 ` Cameron Desautels
[not found] ` <mailman.1166.1146455721.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-02 9:42 ` Gary Wessle
2006-05-01 6:33 ` Fredrik Bulow
2006-05-01 6:39 ` Burton Samograd
2003-01-16 17:24 andrew.maguire
2003-01-07 4:33 Matthew Low
2003-01-07 8:10 ` Benjamin Lewis
2003-01-07 20:17 ` Tuomo Takkula
2003-01-07 20:43 ` Benjamin Lewis
2003-01-13 8:44 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-07 22:27 ` Bruce Korb
2003-01-09 2:45 ` Matthew Low
2003-01-09 5:18 ` Benjamin Lewis
[not found] ` <mailman.42.1041986128.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-08 12:12 ` Reiner Steib
2003-01-13 8:44 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-01-14 18:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-20 7:50 ` Lee Sau Dan
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