Paul Ruane wrote:
Hi,
I asked on the Vim reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/
17gg56/) if anyone knew how to achieve this with existing
functionality or plug-in but apparently not. I would simply like to
have the option, when relativenumber is turned on, to have the current
line show the absolute line number rather than zero. Is this a
reasonable suggestion?
Whilst it is not that hard to scan the status line, I find that I hit
this glitch in my workflow many, many times a day: when I want to know
what line I am on, I intuitively scan the gutter for the line number.
I then realise that relativenumber is on so I redirect my attention to
the status line and then have to parse the number from the other
fields down there.
:he 'number'
set nu is shorter than
set rnu
Admittedly, this is not shown when relativenumber is enabled and number
isn't, but the number option appears to have priority. Of course, its
not merely showing numbering for just the current line, either.
One issue about generally doing this is that relative numbering only
reserves three spaces (how many people have over 100 rows on their
monitors? just wondering), but files often have many more lines that
that. Hence the gutter needs to be expanded, resulting in loss of
valuable screen estate. I'd be willing to put it into my RltvNmbr
plugin, but it uses signs to display relative numbering, and those are
limited to two characters per line.
Regards,
C Campbell
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