Re: use of vim signs

On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 6:48:13 PM UTC+2, toothpik wrote:
> I don't either, and we are not alone. There's at least one other
> person who finds that redundant, distracting current line number a
> nuisance. His complaint was that it makes the number column much
> wider than it needs to be when you're far down in a large file. Mine
> is that it's distracting and ugly.
>
> I'm sorry I wasn't really paying attention when this addition to
> relativenumber was being first discussed.

You have my vote too.

The single absolute number isn't useful to me as I have a statusline
with that information. What's bothering me though is that it's an
aesthetic irregularity, an irritation that distracts from the sidelines.
To my eyes it _looks_ like a bug!

I'd very much prefer the old tidy line of right-aligned numbers.

> If nobody wants yet another option, maybe a configuration option?

I have an idea.

'nonumber' 'number' 'nonumber' 'number'
'nornu' 'nornu' 'rnu' 'rnu'

|apple | 1 apple | 2 apple | 2 apple
|pear | 2 pear | 1 pear | 1 pear
|nobod[y] | 3 nobod[y] | 0 nobod[y] |3 nobod[y]
|there | 4 there | 1 there | 1 there

Thus,
- ":set nonu nornu" means: I don't want any line numbers;
- ":set nu nornu" means: I want to see only absolute numbers;
- ":set nonu rnu" means: I want to see only relative numbers;
- ":set nu rnu" means: I want to have the best of both worlds.

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