Relative line numbers for Vintage mode

[Swimming_Bird]

Lots of vim commands make you go up/down x number of lines so a relative line number is very useful. Is there any way to change the gutter line numbers to be relative to the current line?

[tjstankus]

+1. I'd love to see a relative line numbers option or an API hook. I've looked through the API reference trying to find a way to draw line numbers, which could be used to build a relative line number plugin, but no luck. Am I missing something? Is this even possible? Thanks.

[jps]

It's not currently possible

[Swimming_Bird]

Bump to see if this is possible now or in the foreseeable future.

[joon]

+1 This is very useful feature.

[tmanderson]

This might do it for you:

https://github.com/tmanderson/VintageLines

[S0und]

This might do it for you:

https://github.com/tmanderson/VintageLines

Can someone give me few good examples, what should i use this for?

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[weslly]

Can someone give me few good examples, what should i use this for?

Commands like j (down) and k (up) can be prefixed with numbers, so 5j will jump down five lines. While that’s pretty cool, chances are you won’t actually do that, since counting lines usually takes longer than pressing j until you’re on the right line, especially when you need to jump more than five lines. The same goes for deleting lines, as you probably switch to visual mode and press j a couple of times instead of counting lines and pressing d7d.

With relative line numbers you don't need to calculate in your head how many lines you need to jump. You just look the number of the line you want to go and use it to prefix your movement command.