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Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Maikel — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:52:22 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Ville Aakko — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:25:19 -0000

What... hmm., no preview and this notices the tags and does something gunky... anyways, I ment to remove < /cr > < /f6 > < /silent > (sorry for the whitespace), i.e. only nnoremap <silent> <f6> :set number!<cr> is sufficient.nnoremap <silent> <f6> :set number!<cr> is sufficient.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Ville Aakko — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:23:27 -0000

For me, I needed to remove </cr></f6></silent> (otherwise they vere pasted into vim)</cr></f6></silent> (otherwise they vere pasted into vim)

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

pedro — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:06:10 -0000

do :help linenumbers

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Dsa — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:14:48 -0000

Thanks

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Anon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:00:14 -0000

The .vimrc file needs to be in your home directory. Since the root user's home directory is in a different location than the standard user, it would make sense to put it in that location.

Though if using sudo to act as root, it may or may not use the user's .vimrc file - simple enough to test.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

cs — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:11:11 -0000

This toggles line numbres:
:set nu!
Put this in .vimrc to make F6 toggle line numbers:
nnoremap <silent> <f6> :set nu!<cr>

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

A Obrzut — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:52:57 -0000

This did not work as root.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

lancesimms — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:17:49 -0000

I tried so many of these things to get the line number to always appear at the lower right hand corner and none of them worked. It turns out that all you need to do is add

set ruler

to your .vimrc file

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Mark Szymanski — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:38:30 -0000

You shouldn't need the colon (:) if it is in your ~/.vimrc. Just add set number to the ~/.vimrc

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

SagarRmali — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:31:47 -0000

my terminal doesn't show color word. for example when we write int then it turns green, but mine shows black. this happens for all commands .
help me!

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Bytemangler — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:42:37 -0000

abreviations work, too:

:set nu
:set nonu

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Ramy Mousa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:37:07 -0000

How to save a file with numbers ,Rathnasekaran.R

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Opalinux — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:20:50 -0000

very useful thx ! ! !

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

tojo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:51:31 -0000

thanks krab

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

soorena776 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:30:09 -0000

read the instruction for configuring .vimrc file

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

mostafamahdieh — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:54:32 -0000

Thanks, it worked for me. (gvim version 7.2)

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

sud — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:23:18 -0000

first time - comments are important more then the post

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Cédric Bosdonnat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:10:19 -0000

@Rick: you can use only one shortcut to toggle the line numbers also with the following line (note the ! after the number which mean "toggle" for vi):

nnoremap <silent> <f6> :set number!<cr>

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Rick Graham — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:43:01 -0000

This is what I was looking for.

Here's what I did:

Edit ~/.vimrc

add these lines:

nnoremap <silent> <f6> :set number<cr>
nnoremap <silent> <s-f6> :set nonumber<cr>

Now, F6 turns line numbers on, Shift F6 turns them off.

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Tim Broder — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:29:24 -0000

sweet, thanks

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Dushi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:01:18 -0000

that was so helpful. thanx...

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

ginetta — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:37:22 -0000

You can also add:
set number
~/.vimrc

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

James — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:59:01 -0000

Good tip. I get horizontal lines underneath the numbers, is that supposed to happen?

Re: Show line numbers in vi or vim

Dave — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:15:51 -0000

too easy.. :-)