From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Does emacs have a line numbering feature? Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 07:37:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <63F95800EDD046419F17688AAFD41CCF01D9637F@rnd-ex01.rnd.gdnt.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189262422 3612 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 14:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 16:40:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IU1Tu-0000G3-FD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU1Ts-0001Ly-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU1Si-0008Rq-Mq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IU1Sg-0008Na-Sy for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU1Sg-0008NK-H3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IU1Sf-0001zE-NR for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l88Ece4e025245 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:38:40 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l88EL5Rg013221 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:38:38 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-187.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3195782161189262227; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:37:07 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <63F95800EDD046419F17688AAFD41CCF01D9637F@rnd-ex01.rnd.gdnt.local> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47364 Archived-At: > Thanks for the link. I try the "linum.el" mentioned in the link. > It is very faster than setnu.el. > I try linum mode in a file has 115000 lines, the line number show > immediately. When I try setnu in the same file, my Emacs crashed! > > quote from the link: > Linum > > Library linum.el works incrementally and can number large files very fast. > > http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/linum/linum.html > > > How is this feature toggled on and off? > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LineNumbers I agree. As I said on that page, Linum seems to be an improvement over Setnu. Suggestion: post your performance figures on the wiki, so that others can benefit from it. Wrt your Setnu crash - please report the bug, if you can reproduce it, starting with emacs -Q (that is, without .emacs).