Any way to make emacs display relative line numbers more readable?
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funk443 · 2022-03-31 18:58

So you can see that vim has slightly offset the number of current line
to the left to make it more easily to read, any way to do this in
emacs?

https://preview.redd.it/dmv4bcaunrq81.png?width=953&format=png&auto=we
bp&s=46c44962f3976607e37e658821062dd421221b74

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sylvain_soliman · 2022-03-31 20:23

Never done that but from
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Display-
Custom.html :
_The current line number is displayed in a different face, line-
number-current-line, so you can make the current line’s number have a
distinct appearance, which will help locating the line showing point._

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[deleted] · 2022-03-31 21:51

pacman -R emacs; pacman -S gvim; echo “alias emacs=vim” >> ~/.bashrc

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TheFrenchPoulp · 2022-03-31 21:51

Between the highlight color and the highlighted line I think it's easy
enough to spot. Have you tried Sylvain's suggestion?

https://imgur.com/a/UHpxHXu

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wskydev · 2022-04-01 00:02

`M-x customize-face` then select `line-number-current-line` . If you
click on 'Show all attributes', you can see all your possible styling
options.

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funk443 · 2022-04-01 04:13

Oh thank you! I think I found what I want

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funk443 · 2022-04-01 04:14

Thanks! I'll look into it

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funk443 · 2022-04-01 04:15

But I only want to offset the number tho, nvm, I found the way to do
this

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etisuran · 2022-04-01 09:34

Please can you detail your solution as a follow-up?  I might be
interested.  Thanks

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funk443 · 2022-04-01 09:48

I didn't find a option to offset it, but I changed the color of it and
use a box to make it more obvious