RE: Does emacs have a line numbering feature?

[Drew Adams]

> Thanks for the link. I try the "linum.el" mentioned in the link.
> It is very faster than setnu.el.
> I try linum mode in a file has 115000 lines, the line number show
> immediately. When I try setnu in the same file, my Emacs crashed!
>
> quote from the link:
> Linum
>
> Library linum.el works incrementally and can number large files very fast.
>
> http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/linum/linum.html
>
> > How is this feature toggled on and off?
> >
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LineNumbers

I agree. As I said on that page, Linum seems to be an improvement over
Setnu. Suggestion: post your performance figures on the wiki, so that others
can benefit from it.

Wrt your Setnu crash - please report the bug, if you can reproduce it,
starting with emacs -Q (that is, without .emacs).