Relative line numbers (relative to the current line) are super popular in the world of Vim, because there it’s super easy to move n lines up or down wiht j and k. In the world of Emacs most of us tend to just go some line using M-g g using a absolute line number or using avy (avy-goto-line). That being said, relative line numbers are easy to enable in Emacs and quite handy if you’re into evil-mode: (setq display-line-numbers-type 'relative) (global-display-line-numbers-mode +1) Relative l...