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At least in Vim, line numbers help to move around and operate on text really quickly. Move cursor to ninth line above: 9k Delete from here to seventh line bel
by rbonvall 13y ago
At least in Vim, line numbers help to move around and operate on text really quickly.
Move cursor to ninth line above: 9k
Delete from here to seventh line below: 7dd
Copy thirteenth line above after second line below: :-13t+2
Having line numbers always visible (either relative or absolute) helps for doing this operations quickly.
- aaronem 13y agoEmacs offers goto-line on M-g g or M-g M-g, which admittedly is not the handiest of key sequences; I've been thinking about rebinding that to be more useful, but I don't use it often enough to really need to. Line numbers are also useful, for example, when doing web development, and hunting down the line that's mentioned in a stack trace. Absent integration between the browser's debugger and Emacs, which is something I've fiddled around with (based on mozrepl) but never got working, that's a good second best.