Line number display
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atamariya · 2022-03-16 05:03

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Thought it would be good idea to have a visual comparison of two
popular line number modes in Emacs. Left is linum-mode and right is
display-line-numbers-mode.
https://lifeofpenguin.blogspot.com/2022/03/line-number-display-in-gnu-
emacs.html

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Danrobi1 · 2022-03-16 05:09

> Thought it would be good idea to have a visual comparison of two
popular line number modes in Emacs.

Good idea. I like `display-line-numbers-mode` better.

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holy-rusted-metal · 2022-03-16 06:15

I used to prefer linum mode because that little margin separates the
numbers from my code, because if I had any literals on that left edge
(usually from wrapping around due to my small screen), it was easy to
confuse them... However, display-line-numbers is supposed to be much
more performant when editing very large files. So then I ended up
installing the spacemacs-dark theme that uses a darker color for the
line numbers background than the rest of the code, which solved the
readability problem for me, so now I use display-line-numbers all the
way!