I know how to display line numbers (and columns) in the mode-line, but I'd like emacs to display the line numbers for all the lines on the left-hand side. I've seen this done in vim and other text editors. How do I do this for emacs?
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M-x linum-mode (or global-linum-mode), and put (global-linum-mode t) in your ~/.emacs (or ~/.emacs.d/init.el) to enable it at startup.
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For any late readers:
M-x column-number-modeis one way to display the current column your pointer is at.– monotuxMar 13, 2014 at 11:42 -
There is neither an init.el file in my .emacs.d directory nor a .emacs file in my ~. Where can I find them? Jul 4, 2016 at 18:48
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This worked for me. Heads up for Windows users - this file is located in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming directory, and is called ".emacs". Just add (global-linum-mode t) at the end of the file. Oct 1, 2017 at 16:25
This page:
lists a few different options.
monotux's answer is currently the first option listed there. An alternative (also listed) is NLinum:
You should be able to install from ELPA:
M-x package-install RET nlinum RET
and then use it e.g. like this:
(use-package nlinum
:config
(global-nlinum-mode))
answered Nov 18, 2010 at 5:49
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@Prof.Falken Especially when the link leads to a 404 Not Found. Please fix your answer.– byxorJun 13, 2017 at 12:58
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1Thanks both - agreed, though monotux's answer already has all the needed information. I edited to correct the link and provide an alternative one. Jun 14, 2017 at 3:37
linum-mode→ old, hack, slow. Emacs 23 (released in 2009).global-display-line-numbers-mode→ Emacs 26 (beta as of 2018-03-30)
Put this in your emacs init file:
(when (version<= "26.0.50" emacs-version )
(global-display-line-numbers-mode))
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(global-display-line-numbers-mode)to.emacsfile works in Emacs 26! Apr 1, 2019 at 21:07