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So I'm using Vim's line numbering with

set number
set numberwidth=4

But I find that if line numbers exceed 999, then the gutter is automatically expanded to accommodate them. I actually don't want this--I use vim within tmux and need to preserve pane size as well as the number of columns in the editor. I would rather have the most significant digit(s) cropped, so that line 1234 appears as 234, for example. Is there any way to achieve this?

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    I don't think this is possible without a custom scripted solution (and even that I'm not 100% sure about). There's a setting for the minimum width but not the maximum. As far as a partial solution, it's hard to imagine Vim having a builtin setting that allows something ugly like truncating the numbers.
    – B Layer
    Commented Dec 2, 2020 at 16:41
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    This is not possible
    – Christian Brabandt
    Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 8:41
  • please paste picture here, so the problem will become more directly.
    – user32495
    Commented Dec 5, 2020 at 8:00

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