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Writeroom mode and linum mode are incompatible (leave numbers at far left, making them useless for (evil) jumping). Is there anything else I can do to get centered text with (relative) line numbering close to the text?

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  • How about right-aligning the line-numbers? (setq linum-format "%7d") There are a few threads that pop-up on Google when searching for this issue, so there are probably other solutions that have already been written up. – lawlist Nov 24 '16 at 16:20
  • Not sure what you're looking for, but did you try commands such as center-region, center-paragraph, and center-line? – Drew Nov 25 '16 at 6:15
  • @Drew, sorry I was unclear. I don't want to center the text in the file, just on the screen while editing. It seems a bit wrong, disturbing, to me if I am editing a file with lines spanning only half the screen that they should occupy the left half of the screen while the right is empty. – Toothrot Nov 25 '16 at 16:09
  • I see. I just use separate frames (window-manager windows), and fit the frames to the buffer text. No wasted space at all, and text positioned anywhere I want on the display. – Drew Nov 25 '16 at 16:38
  • have you thought about hilighting the line number with something like the hlinum package? – mclear Apr 24 '17 at 4:51
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Centered-window-mode works with line numbers, though it doesn't provide the numbers directly next to the the text.

However, if you are using the latest emacs, it now has native display of line numbers. If you set display-line-numbers-type 'relative or display-line-numbers-type 'visual and use in combination with centered-window-mode you'll get the numbers right next to the centered text, and with relative line numbers except for current line.

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  • It does, but the numbers are placed at the far left, making it difficult to see which lines they belong to. It also 'centers' text further to the left than writeroom, for some reason. – Toothrot Nov 24 '16 at 20:38
  • you can modify how it centers with cwm-centered-window-width. But I don't know what to say concerning your difficulty with number placing, if just having it on the left isn't going to work. – mclear Nov 27 '16 at 21:11
  • I've updated this answer with reference to the new native line numbering. – mclear Jul 31 '17 at 16:40

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