[Stal3r]

Can you use relativenumber with this, which is required for efficient vim use?

[chrismorgan]

I tried 'relativenumber' for a few days. I threw it away as too annoying. Considering the topic here I find it especially amusing that 'rnu' should come up—this is all about focus, and it was the distraction that it was that I hated about 'rnu'.

If you were looking at relative line numbers and typing 8j, you can just as well look at line numbers and type 372gg when you have 'nu' set.

[dasil003]

The key to rnu is having a toggle bound. Once I had that it never annoyed because 90% of the time I want an absolute number I just jump to it. For the rest of the times I just toggle.

[chrismorgan]

I tried that too. Far too annoying, when you could just use 372gg.

[pyre]

While I agree that it makes things easier, it's not required for efficient vim use. Case in point, it's a relatively new addition to Vim.