From: Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does emacs have a line numbering feature?
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:00:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfednS6gHqBr8XnbnZ2dnUVZ_vqpnZ2d@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87642jtx3c.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de>
Tassilo Horn, on 09/09/2007 04:14 PM said:
>>> (setq line-number-mode t)
>>> (setq column-number-mode t)
>> Yeah, I already had that in, and it works. However, if I do something
>> similar for linum-mode, it seems to just ignore it.
>
> Yes, because setting a minor mode variable to activate it is the wrong
> thing to do. It might work sometimes, but generally you should either
> customize the variable or use the minor mode function. So the code
> above should better be
>
> (line-number-mode 1)
> (column-number-mode 1)
>
> because by convention a minor mode is turned on if the argument is
> positive.
>
Okay... I tried that, too, for linum-mode, and it doesn't work. Am I
missing something obvious or am I an idiot? :-P
-- Mike
--
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2007-09-09 7:24 ` Does emacs have a line numbering feature? Unknown
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2007-09-09 22:58 ` Drew Adams
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2007-09-07 20:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-09-12 8:56 ` Andrew Russell
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2007-09-10 4:24 ` Markus Triska
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2007-09-09 23:31 ` Unknown
2007-09-10 1:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 15:42 arguellodw
2007-09-07 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-08 7:46 ` brianjiang
2007-09-08 14:37 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-08 15:53 ` brianjiang
2007-09-08 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-07 16:02 ` Michaël Cadilhac
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