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by klibertp 4340 days ago
That's because EmacsWiki is old, poorly organized and not always up to date. It's to be expected when the area to cover is this huge. "Meanwhile", in recent Emacsen, what you want is

    linum-mode
You can also customize this with

    M-x customize-group RET linum
where you can set font, format for numbers and enable/disable line numbers globally.