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Emacs line number

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Mar 15, 2026532 views
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I am having problems obtaining a line number while within an emacs buffer. I have the following number in my initilization file: (setq line-number-display-limit 2000000), and I have verified that line number mode it turned on. When I first enter the (~500) line buffer, emacs provides me with a line…

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Fix for: Emacs line number

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Do you have very long (wide) lines? Have you seen line-number-display-limit-width ? line-number-display-limit-width is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is 200 Documentation: *Maximum line width (in characters) for line number display…

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