linum-mode

And you can always temporarily enable linum-mode if you really need to see all of the line numbers.

Throw this in your init.el (scroll-bar-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (global-linum-mode 0) And it will instantly look a lot cleaner.

I went through some stack overflow again and a lot of people are suggesting it could be linum-mode?

You don’t need linum-mode to jump to a line number.

Looks like you want global-linum-mode to get line numbering.

You’re probably using the old notoriously slow linum-mode.

I found global-linum-mode to be rather slow in large files, unfortunately.

This is super useful to me: (global-set-key [f6] 'linum-mode) (global-set-key [f7] 'next-buffer) (global-set-key [f8] 'previous-buffer) I also have yasnippet, but I don't really use it at all (I should).

A note: I' be careful though, because depending on how you create your variables, thing can go wrong, I guess: if you-re going to use eval-buffer on your whole.emacs, I'd better use, for example, add-hook instead to add-to-list: (add-hook c-mode-hook 'linum'mode) instead of: (add-to-list c-mode-hook 'linum-mode) Just saying.

Try to determine which one you're using by running "M-x linum-mode" and then "M-x display-line-numbers-mode".

I haven't fully isolated this to "linum" vs "linum and XXX together", but when linum-mode is enabled, Emacs is noticeably sluggish.

"Meanwhile", in recent Emacsen, what you want is linum-mode You can also customize this with M-x customize-group RET linum where you can set font, format for numbers and enable/disable line numbers globally.