From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Lewis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 00:10:31 -0800 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041966098 23418 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 19:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:01:38 +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 18Vyyl-00065U-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:01:35 +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 18Vyp8-00010p-0F for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:51:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!opentransit.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: css.css.sfu.ca Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041927245 15763 199.60.1.20 (7 Jan 2003 08:14:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jan 2003 08:14:05 GMT X-Attribution: Benjamin Lewis X-Yow: Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:67c2Yns+E9InVS8DM9pT5RTtVLo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108704 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:5226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5226 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. -- Benjamin Lewis A small, but vocal, contingent even argues that tin is superior, but they are held by most to be the lunatic fringe of Foil Deflector Beanie science.