Re: Why use relative line numbers?

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:46:30 PM UTC-5, MarcWeber wrote:
> ben, tim,
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> Can you give this a try again:
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> http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/tips/goto-line-by-last-digits.html
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> would using normal line numbers be fine this way if it was possible to
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> pass 05?
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> eg d3\G works now.
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> not having relative line numbers is less confusing, because the numbers
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> on the left don't change.
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> If this would work nicely, would there be a reason to keep relative line
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> numbers ?
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As I mentioned before, J and _ and some other commands are much more useful to me with relative line numbers. And I like using them with dd, cc, yy, etc. these days, although I could change that to instead use the absolute numbers if I wanted.

In the beginning, relative line numbers also frequently took up less space than the absolute line numbers. That's no longer the case (as noted by much recent discussion).

I like the idea of your plugin and if relative line numbers were not around I'd probably use it. But as it stands now I don't mind sticking with relative numbering.

The other situation I use relative numbers a lot is when I'm recording macros to do a lot of stuff in a small range of lines. :set rnu can make it easier to get this right on the first try faster.

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