Re: Does emacs have a line numbering feature?

[Michael Trausch]

Tassilo Horn, on 09/09/2007 04:14 PM said:
>>> (setq line-number-mode t)
>>> (setq column-number-mode t)
>> Yeah, I already had that in, and it works.  However, if I do something
>> similar for linum-mode, it seems to just ignore it.
> 
> Yes, because setting a minor mode variable to activate it is the wrong
> thing to do.  It might work sometimes, but generally you should either
> customize the variable or use the minor mode function.  So the code
> above should better be
> 
>   (line-number-mode 1)
>   (column-number-mode 1)
> 
> because by convention a minor mode is turned on if the argument is
> positive.
> 

Okay... I tried that, too, for linum-mode, and it doesn't work.  Am I
missing something obvious or am I an idiot?  :-P

        -- Mike

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