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Re: line numbers
From: |
Benjamin Lewis |
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Re: line numbers |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:18:30 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) |
Matthew Low wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I meant to show line numbers for every line on display, for example down
> the left margin of the screen. I'll implement this program as soon as I
> learn to use .el files. Thanks a lot.
That's what I thought you meant. You don't have to do anything fancy; just
put the file setnu.el somewhere in your load path, and do M-x setnu-mode.
Actually, you probably also need a (require 'setnu) in your .emacs file.
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Benjamin Lewis
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