"dotspacemacs-line-numbers t" does not work

[douglas-raillard-arm]

Description :octocat:

"dotspacemacs-line-numbers t" does not work. Setting it to any value does not bring line numbers. I checked with the .spacemacs.template file to avoid any custom conf issue.

Reproduction guide :beetle:

• Start Emacs
• install the template as .spacemacs
• modify it so that you get "dotspacemacs-line-numbers t"

Observed behaviour: :eyes: :broken_heart: No line numbers displayed when opening a text file.

Expected behaviour: :heart: :smile: Line numbers displayed when opening a text file.

System Info :computer:

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 26.3
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. fa514c6ac)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(emacs-lisp helm multiple-cursors treemacs)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM THREADS LIBSYSTEMD LCMS2

[douglas-raillard-arm]

Seems to actually work for most file. The one for which it did not work was without any extension, so maybe it was not recognized as code by emacs

[lebensterben]

Please provide more details on how to reproduce the issue.

[douglas-raillard-arm]

Hi @lebensterben , sorry for the delay. To reproduce:

1. load my emacs config (attached)
2. echo 42 > foo
3. emacs foo # No line number displayed by default
4. mv foo foo.rs
5. emacs foo.rs # After adding a recognized extension, emacs displays line numbers

.spacemacs conf: spacemacs.txt

[swang251]

Hi @douglas-raillard-arm , I believe what you experienced is the expected behavior.

When a file without an extension is opened, it is by default in the Fundamental mode. When the dotspacemacs-line-numbers is toggled in your ~/.spacemacs, it automatically toggles line numbers in all prog-mode and text-mode buffers, but not a fundamental-mode buffer.

You can change the default mode of a no-extension file to the text-mode if you want. Check here for more details.

Check the Documentations for more details about dotspacemacs-line-numbers:

Line numbers can be toggled on in all prog-mode and text-mode buffers by setting the dotspacemacs-line-numbers variable in your ~/.spacemacs to t.

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[douglas-raillard-arm]

That makes sense, I'll try to fix my conf, thanks for the insights.

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