Re: Display window line numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:44:44 +0200
> 
> > And I don't really see the importance, FWIW: why isn't the 'visual' variety
> > not what you want?  Then "C-u N C-p" and "C-u n C-n" will do what you want.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> `M-N M-p' is easy to type

So is "C-3 C-p" or "C-5 C-n".

> and also it's easier to read numbers incrementally going from top to
> bottom, not in reverse order as 'visual' does for lines before the current
> line.

Very strange to hear that.  Line addressing was always relative to the
current line, back when editors needed that.