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[ Article crossposted from comp.unix.misc ]
[ Author was william.c.brown ]
[ Posted on Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:41:55 GMT ]

In article <1993Jan6.153020.26807@nmsu.edu>, wjohnson@nmsu.edu (Wilbur Johnson) writes:
> 
> A friend of mine asked me a question about vi that I was unable to answer.
> 
> He said that a long time ago he could load a MACRO into vi that would provide
> a column rule (i.e. column number indicator) that would appear as a side effect
> to his document. That is the ruler would act like line numbering.
> 
> We are particularly interested in SunOS vi.
> 


Try "set nu" in command mode and "viola" line numbers...


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