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Re: line numbers
From: |
Tuomo Takkula |
Subject: |
Re: line numbers |
Date: |
07 Jan 2003 21:17:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Benjamin Lewis <bclewis@cs.sfu.ca> writes:
> 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.
>
and personally I prefer to have the current line in the
modeline. Saves a few of these precious columns of editor space...
(setq-default line-number-mode t)
Cheers
Tuomo
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