Re: Line Number in the mode line shows ??.

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

I do not think it is very long, it is 8607 lines

Length of longest line is 139.

> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 5:29 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Line Number in the mode line shows ??.
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 06:43:23 +0200
> >
> > When I load the file, the line number is there and is correct.  Howewer, when
> > I start changing the file, I then get "??".  It continues to be "??" even when
> > I save the file.
> >
> > Then I close emacs and load the file to get the line number correct again.
>
> How many lines are there in the file, and what is the length of the
> longest line?
>
> Emacs will not stop showing line numbers until it actually displays
> for the first time a line that is wider that
> line-number-display-limit-width columns.  So if the number of lines
> there is less that line-number-display-limit, but one of the lines is
> very wide, and that wide line is not at the first portion of the file
> that Emacs displayed when you visit the file, then you could have line
> numbers initially, but they will be turned off whenever the wide line
> comes into the view.
>
>