Re: line numbers

[Tuomo Takkula]

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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