From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line-number-display-limit-width Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:45:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <14713431.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199940349 9665 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2008 04:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:45:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 10 05:46:06 2008 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 1JCpIr-00066I-Kb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:46:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCpIU-0000QQ-7Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCpID-0000Pv-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCpIB-0000Pj-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCpIA-0000Pg-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCpIA-00068P-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JCpI2-0001GD-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:45:14 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:45:14 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:45:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Macintosh/20071210) In-Reply-To: <14713431.post@talk.nabble.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50612 Archived-At: stephenb wrote: > using emacs 21.3 on windows: > > the help file claims I can set var "line-number-display-limit-width", but > there is no such variable. > direct editing produces no match and browsing the "Display" group also does > not show such a variable. > > do I need to setup that variable? > I saw the linum.el, but it displays line numbers in the buffer instead of > the mode line at the bottom. > > Thanks everybody. I'm using 22.1, and here's what's in my ~/.emacs: (setq line-number-display-limit-width 1024) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA