How do I enable line numbers (on the left) every time when line is the long logical line

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I have linum-mode enabled as well as truncate-lines. Works fine as long as Emacs displays column 0:

The line number is showed on left (OK)

But as soon as the window is scrolled horizontally, the line numbers disappear:

The line number is not showed on left

How do I make it so the line numbers (on the left) stay displayed when I move along a long logical line ?

I think you're seeing a plain bug. This affects both linum-mode and nlinum-mode, apparently. I recommend you M-x report-emacs-bug. — Stefan, Commented May 10, 2016 at 3:35
FYI: I don't observe this behaviour with Emacs 24.5.1 and linum-mode 0.9.24 on Linux, the line numbers remain visible. — ph0t0nix, Commented May 10, 2016 at 15:23
I see the same problem, Emacs 25.0.93.1 on Windows. @user3875715 what version of Emacs are you running? — glucas, Commented May 10, 2016 at 16:26
@ph0t0nix: I do see this behavior on Emacs 24.5 on Linux. Curious if you tried it with emacs -Q — nispio, Commented May 10, 2016 at 18:54
Sorry for the confusion. You are both right, I observe the same thing. I totally missed the part where the OP says column 0 shouldn't be visible for this to appear. — ph0t0nix, Commented May 10, 2016 at 19:27

Erik B · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-04 11:52:25Z

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This is a bug in linum-mode.

Line numbers will indeed disappear with horizontal scrolling when using line-truncation. See reproduction details in bug report.

answered Apr 4, 2017 at 11:52

Erik B

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