Just a quickie from something that I’ve had in the queue for a while. Chris Maiorana has a short post on relative line numbers. The idea is that the current line—the line you’re on—is considered line 0 and the lines above and below it are labeled as the number of lines away from the current line.
That’s handy if you’re interested in, say, 5 lines above or below the current line because they’re labeled as that. I love the idea but, truth to tell, I have never found a compelling use case for them. Maiorana says it handy for authors who want to know how many lines there are in the current paragraph but offers no other reason to adopt them.
Still, lots of people seem to like them and they’re certainly easy to turn on. Take a look at Maiorana’s post for the details.