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Vim can output the number of each line on the left side of the screen. Questions about customizing this behavior.

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Misunderstanding of interaction between local options, moving between windows, and WinLeave,...

WinLeave relativenumber.vim (nu = 1, rnu = 1) WinEnter relativenumber.vim (nu = 1, rnu = 1) BufLeave relativenumber.vim (nu = 1, rnu = 1) BufEnter (nu = 0, rnu = 0) "help.txt" [readonly] 253L, 9491B …
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How supply range to normal mode key-binding?

My preferred method here is to just let you enter the range from the place you normally do: on the Ex command line: nnoremap <leader>t :Test<C-b> Since <C-b> puts your cursor between at the beginning …
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Line numbers relative to the screen

Not without patching the source (source: the only relevant options are number and relativenumber). I do recall some recent questions about using signs to create custom numbers. If anyone has those lin …
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What are the benefits and use cases of relativenumber?

TL;DR relative numbers are just another tool in the toolbox they can be effective in terms of locality when a text-object doesn't cut it (and for the lazy-minded among us) they pair nicely with comma …
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inserting a line number into substitution text

Turning Martin's comment into an answer, you can't have both a literal replacement and \=, but you can use string concatenation or printf to combine them: global/^$/substitute//\=printf('# %d', line(' …
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Vim never shows line number for Python files even though I have `.vimrc`

Why it didn't work From :help FileType, *FileType* FileType When the 'filetype' option has been set. The pattern is matched against the …
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Enable line numbering for directories

According to :help netrw: *g:netrw_bufsettings* the settings that netrw buffers have (default) noma nomod nonu nowrap ro nobl So I would try " $MYVIMRC let g:netrw_bufsettings = 'nom …
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