Numbers.vim - A vim plugin for better line numbers

https://github.com/myusuf3/numbers.vim

by rdegges • 14 years ago

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spicyj• 14 years ago

Already posted a couple of months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172099

lucisferre• 14 years ago

Lately it feels like the HN front page is stuck in a loop.

nvmc• 14 years ago

I heard the same thing happened to another link aggregator.

Derbasti• 14 years ago

Why is it better? And better than what?

city41• 14 years ago

I believe the general theory is relative line numbering helps you when in normal mode. If you want to manipulate a chunk of lines, sometimes you revert to counting them then doing something like <n>yy. With relative line numbering the counting is effectively done for you.

But to me, I try to avoid counting arbitrary lines and instead try and do something like y/<unique marker> or ya{ or whatever.

JamesLeonis• 14 years ago

There are two types of line numbering in vim, relative and absolute. The former counts the lines starting from the vertical position of the cursor, backwards and forwards. The latter starts at the top of the file to the bottom of the file.

Vim has several ways to move and edit a file. For example, to go to a specific line, you would use <n>gg and you would jump to that line. This is useful for navigation as well as selection.

There are likewise commands that are relative from the cursor's position. dd and yy come immediately to mind, as well as the h-j-k-l commands. Knowing how many lines you need is augmented from the relative line numbering.

The key here is Vim doesn't have an easy way to switch from one to the other, except through manually typing commands like `set relativenumber` and `set number`. The plugin switches the number count based on what mode you are in.

gbin• 14 years ago

This is awesome. I just made an ebuild for it : https://plus.google.com/110857536631648345380/posts/4NeGmXfM...

saurabh• 14 years ago

Can anybody tell me what relative numbers are useful for other than navigation? I find Easymotion the state-of-the-art plugin for navigation.

ollysb• 14 years ago

Yeah, easymotion does make counting words/lines seem rather redundant. I'm just hoping that they'll extend easymotion so I don't even need to think about what I'm jumping to i.e. I hit leader leader and every non-white character is indexed to jump to.

gm2• 14 years ago

Anyone have a screenshot of how this looks?

reledi• 14 years ago

The HN submission would be better as this page: http://myusuf3.github.com/numbers.vim

gm2• 14 years ago

Awesome, even better. Thanks!

rpearl• 14 years ago

Using a plugin for this seems... unnecessary.

yureka• 14 years ago

You can obtain similar functionality by adding the following to your .vimrc: https://gist.github.com/3012145

digitaltoad2• 14 years ago

You shouldn't ever have to count lines in vim. The five line deletion example could have been done as:

  10dG

Which would delete from the cursor to the tenth line.

dhimes2• 14 years ago

d5j

delete five from where you are- inclusive

digitaltoad2• 14 years ago

This still means you would be counting 5 lines whereas I'm just specifying what line to delete to.

noeleon• 14 years ago

why not just use visual mode?? then you can see the lines you are deleting, copying / cutting

newman314• 14 years ago

Does this make it so that highlighting in Terminal (prior to copying) only selects the text?

I had line numbers set till it turned out that when I selected a bunch of text for copying selected the line numbers too. Ugh.

Numbers.vim - A vim plugin for better line numbers

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