From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tuomo Takkula Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: 07 Jan 2003 21:17:51 +0100 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041977264 17969 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 22:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18W1st-0004fd-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:07:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18W0D5-0007qb-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:20:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!zen.net.uk!news.nl.linux.org!humbolt.nl.linux.org!surfnet.nl!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!news.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quirm.cs.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: nyheter.chalmers.se 1041970672 9887 129.16.225.31 (7 Jan 2003 20:17:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jan 2003 20:17:52 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108712 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5237 Benjamin Lewis writes: > Matthew Low wrote: > > > I'm using Emacs 21.2.1. Is there any way to display line numbers on the > > screen as you are typing? > > Yes: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LineNumbers > > I'm curious why you want this, though. I've noticed a number of people > asking about this, and can't see where it would be useful, given some of > emacs' other features. > and personally I prefer to have the current line in the modeline. Saves a few of these precious columns of editor space... (setq-default line-number-mode t) Cheers Tuomo -- Chalmers University of Technology Computing Science Eklandagatan 86, S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden tuomo@cs.chalmers.se, +46-31-772 1052 phone, +46-31-165 655 fax