Re: Does emacs have a line numbering feature?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Michael Trausch <"mike|s/\x40/\./g;s/|.*|/\x40/g;|trausch"@us> writes:

> Drew Adams, on 09/09/2007 06:58 PM said:
>> 
>> Are you using Emacs 22? If so, then you can define a different command,
>> `global-linum-mode', as follows (after loading linum.el):
>> 
>> (define-globalized-minor-mode global-linum-mode
>>    linum-mode (lambda nil (linum-mode 1)))
>> 
>> Then just put this in your .emacs: (global-linum-mode 1).
>> 
>> You can toggle line numbering in all buffers at once using command
>> `global-linum-mode'. Even the minibuffer is affected, which might not be
>> what you want.
>>
>
> A small price to pay, given that having linum is about one of the
> only things that I was really left wishing for.  :) Now, if I could
> just find a computer chip to implant in my brain that would teach me
> LISP... :-)

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