Emacs Init: Show Line Numbers

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Display Line Numbers Mode

New in Emacs 26 (date 2018) .

Alt+x global-display-line-numbers-mode
show line numbers in all buffers.
Alt+x display-line-numbers-mode
show line numbers in current buffer.
emacs global-display-line-numbers-mode 2025-08-17 31930
emacs global-display-line-numbers-mode 2025-08-17 31930

Put this in your Emacs Init File:

(global-display-line-numbers-mode)

They are written by Eli Zaretskii. Thank you Eli.

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