The above command will start the nano editor with the option to constantly display the cursor position at the bottom of the editor. The best you can do is to display the line number of the current cursor position. Being a very simple editor, Nano does not have the ability to display line numbers as Vi or other editors do. It is probably not as feature rich as Vi, but is widely supported over many distributions. Nano is another basic text editor in Linux, with a text based user interface. It toggles the line number display depending on the current state.

The above :se nu! can be used to both enable and disable the line numbers. You can remove the line numbers from being displayed by using the following command. Once you have enabled the display of the line numbers, you might want to disable the them later. This will display the line numbers in the left hand side margin of the editor.

The se nu is the shortcut for the original command, set number. You can do that by hitting the escape key at any time. To display the line numbers, first you need to enter the escape mode. Vi (or the Vim variation) is probably the most popular editor in Linux with a text user interface. We will just look at some of most the popular ones, couple of text based interfaces and a couple of graphical interfaces. In Text EditorsДЄlmost all text editors does have an option to display line numbers, most of them are turned on by default. This post deals only the use case where you need to see the line content alongside the line number. If you just want to find the total number of lines in a file, then you can do that without even opening and viewing the file in an editor. Many text editors with a graphical interface will display line numbers by default, but you can always toggle it from the options to enable or disable it. While viewing files in Linux, especially text files it is often informative and useful to see the line numbers.В Text based editors and utilities such as vi, nano, cat or less can all display line numbers with a command line argument or with an command with in the editor.

Centos install nedit