Line number column in Emacs
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
This is something I’d always wished Emacs did; finally got around to finding a minor mode for it.
While the built-in line-number and column-number modes are fine, linum-mode makes it much easier to see where you are in the code at a glance.
To apply it to all buffers by default, throw the following in your .emacs:
(require 'linum)
(global-linum-mode)
This is a cool little 
