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No line numbers? @_@

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It is already present on the lower right by default. Why lose a column?

I mean, I have a 32" 4k monitor for a reason.

Reason being outdated indexing UX?

I mean, every column counts, even in a 32" 4K display. Also, not all of us have the space to fit these screens everywhere we work.

I like line numbers because when I'm editing code in a remote meeting, I or someone else can refer to lines by number. The current line is not the only one that matters. I use relative line numbers because I like doing e.g. 9k or whatever. Others on a remote call often refer to other parts of the code with "9 up" or "9 down" (since "9k" and "9j" sound too alike in a noisy call).

You can selectively turn them on as a meeting aid, no?

Yup that's what I do as needed, which for me is pretty rare.

When I started pairing every day at work, I used to do:

  if $WORK_COMPUTER
    set number
  endif

But then I came to like line numbers and just have 'em on all the time now.

Then I can easily go to the line I want to go. :34 takes me to line 34

34G will save you a keystroke :-D

...and 34gg will save you a chord ;)

It will, but I generally prefer chords on separate hands over double keys on the same hand.

I actually agree with you and am now wondering why the heck I’ve used gg all this time.

It makes it easy to jump to other lines on your screen, e.g. maybe you want to split out half the code from a loop to another function. You can't use di{ to delete everything in the {} because you only want half of it, but if you can see that the loop contents end on line 98 you can go d98G

I gave up absolute line numbers a few years ago in exchange for `:set rnu` and while my navigation capabilities (at least to anywhere I can see) have gotten a lot faster, the ability to `>>` a handful of lines without having to count has felt a ton more productive

You can also set both relative & absolute line numbers at the same time.

I have this in my .vimrc to toggle relative on/off with ctrl-n:

> nnoremap <C-n> :exe 'set nu!' &nu ? 'rnu!' : ''

Nope. Back in the day that would greatly interfere with copy/paste. One way or another, it's so easy to see what line number you're on and/or jump to a specific line.

can't you just yank to +? you might need the vim build with +clipboard if it's not default these days

I have vim use the clipboard by default, with that said I still use the mouse to copy stuff now and then.

Depending on your OS, you could use visual line mode and highlight the text you want to copy. Then you can run:

    '<,'>w !xclip -selection clipboard

to copy the text to your clipboard. Macs have another program that works similar to xclip, but I don't remember what it's called.

What's the advantage of this command over "+y ?

Not GP, but for me it's simply that I remember it (or rather don't need to, because it's just using general purpose mechanisms that I already remember).

But now you've said it maybe I'll remember if I need it today, and.. well I'll see.

If vim doesn't have clipboard support enabled, then this is one way to copy and paste. The vim packages in the Fedora repositories are configured such that vim doesn't have clipboard support, but gvim does.

> Macs have another program that works similar to xclip, but I don't remember what it's called.

pbcopy

While I'm here, on Wayland substitute wl-copy (or whatever you use).

It's X11 only. So Wayland or remote users can not use it.

    :set nu!

Just toggle them off when you copy/paste, then on again. Takes a fraction of a second.

Yeah, why enable a feature you never use?

> No line numbers? @_@

Are you still using goto's ?

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