Comments on: Show line numbers in vi or vim

By: Cédric Bosdonnat

Cédric Bosdonnat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:10:19 +0000

@Rick: you can use only one shortcut to toggle the line numbers also with the following line (note the ! after the number which mean “toggle” for vi):

nnoremap :set number!

By: Rick Graham

Rick Graham — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:43:01 +0000

This is what I was looking for.

Here's what I did:

Edit ~/.vimrc

add these lines:

nnoremap :set number
nnoremap

:set nonumber

Now, F6 turns line numbers on, Shift F6 turns them off.

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:29:24 +0000

sweet, thanks

By: Dushi

Dushi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:01:18 +0000

that was so helpful. thanx…

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:37:22 +0000

You can also add:
set number
~/.vimrc

By: James

James — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:59:01 +0000

Good tip. I get horizontal lines underneath the numbers, is that supposed to happen?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:15:51 +0000

too easy.. :-)

By: Vasanth

Vasanth — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:45:16 +0000

thanks it helped!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:29:16 +0000

Nice… had forgotten my vi

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:28:03 +0000

Thanks. It was helpful for me