Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38121:82d39521a482
(Optional Mode Line): Document line-number-display-limit-width.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:54:44 +0000 |
| parents | 64002802a902 |
| children | 4aeb215906f3 |
| files | man/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/display.texi Tue Jun 19 20:36:16 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Wed Jun 20 07:54:44 2001 +0000 @@ -666,13 +666,23 @@ indicate what it is. @xref{Minor Modes}, for more information about minor modes and about how to use this command. +@cindex narrowing, and line number display + If you have narrowed the buffer (@pxref{Narrowing}), the displayed +line number is relative to the accessible portion of the buffer. + @vindex line-number-display-limit If the buffer is very large (larger than the value of @code{line-number-display-limit}), then the line number doesn't appear. Emacs doesn't compute the line number when the buffer is large, because -that would be too slow. Set it to @code{nil} to remove the limit. If -you have narrowed the buffer (@pxref{Narrowing}), the displayed line -number is relative to the accessible portion of the buffer. +that would be too slow. Set it to @code{nil} to remove the limit. + +@vindex line-number-display-limit-width + Line-number computation can also be slow if the lines in the buffer +are too long. For this reason, Emacs normally doesn't display line +numbers if the average width, in characters, of lines near point is +larger than the value of the variable +@code{line-number-display-limit-width}. The default value is 200 +characters. @cindex Column Number mode @cindex mode, Column Number