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?
Mac – How to display line numbers in Emacs (not in the mode line)
emacs
Best Answer
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.