From: Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: line numbers
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:18:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yy7ohecilx3t.fsf@css.css.sfu.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SOL.4.44.0301081835020.20714-100000@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Matthew Low wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I meant to show line numbers for every line on display, for example down
> the left margin of the screen. I'll implement this program as soon as I
> learn to use .el files. Thanks a lot.
That's what I thought you meant. You don't have to do anything fancy; just
put the file setnu.el somewhere in your load path, and do M-x setnu-mode.
Actually, you probably also need a (require 'setnu) in your .emacs file.
--
Benjamin Lewis
Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-07 4:33 line numbers 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
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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
2003-01-09 2:45 ` Matthew Low
2003-01-09 5:18 ` Benjamin Lewis [this message]
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2003-01-16 17:24 andrew.maguire
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
2012-06-03 17:36 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
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
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