HI
I recently had to migrate to display-line-numbers-mode. It was hard to find what I wanted in the manual at first glance, which was how to set the width of the line numbers to fixed width. It was somehow buried in a paragraph along with other succinct explanations for other variables.
Here is a proposal to highlight the variable in the manual
diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi
index a4040d9..ee76e77 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi
@@ -1882,6 +1882,12 @@ Display Custom
non-@code{nil}. It has no effect when set to zero, or when line
numbers are not absolute.
+@vindex display-line-numbers-width
+Set the value of @code{display-line-numbers-width} to fix the width
+of the line number. Make sure it is large enough for the largest files
+you expect to edit (e.g. @code{4} would allow up to @code{9999} lines
+to be displayed correctly)
+
@vindex display-line-numbers-width-start
@vindex display-line-numbers-grow-only
@vindex display-line-numbers-width
Best, /Pedro A.
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