Nazri Ramliy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Paul Ruane <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > The following patch does what you want. After trying it out for a few minutes > it does feel easier to find out the current line number. I normally > have the line > number in my statusline, and on the occasion where the statusline is not shown > I've trained my fingers to hit Ctrl+G and scan the bottom line for the > line number. > > Having the current line number, instead of a '0' shown at the current > line seems more useful. For better distinction the current line number > ca be left-aligned (for left-to-right text orientation) to make it > look different than the relative-line-numbers (I made no attempt at > this in the patch below). > > Others might find it weird.
I think the information is useful. Who is against showing the current line number instead of zero? Is the width of the column a problem? -- "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." (George Bernard Shaw) /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
