How to show EVERY line number?

[PhoxKiD]

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[LeaVerou]

Not possible at the moment.
Could you explain why do you think it’s needed? What does it help for? I didn't include such functionality, because I think it's one of those things that add visual noise, without actually being useful most of the time (there is the line highlight plugin for when some line numbers are actually needed) and we're just used to them.

I am considering to add the functionality of seeing the line number on hover though, in the line highlight plugin.

[sherblot]

Hello,

Displaying all the lines can be very useful for some reasons:

• It avoid to have to find all the lines numbers using an external app. That can be time consuming when you have long codes and a lot of lines to highlight/refer to (I can be kinda lazy I know :) ).
• It will help to easily refer to some part of the code we don't want to "line highlight" for some reason (reference, notice, out of the scope of an article, etc.)

If you are interested I have a 8 lines piece of code improvement for the Line Highlight plugin which do the job using data-line='*'. In that way, the all lines display will be an option.

[LeaVerou]

Hi,

• The first use case will be solved by what I mentioned above.
• The second one could easily be solved with dynamically highlighting lines by linking to them, like http://prismjs.com/plugins/line-highlight/#play.50-55,60

[martinvium]

Hi,

Line numbers on hover sounds awesome, and would solve a problem im facing. Any news on that or any pointer on how you want it implemented (in which case i might do it my self)?

[martinvium]

There is the problem of mobile devices, which cannot hover. Maybe a hook could be provided, which would allow enabling line numbers for mobile devices or a button if people prefer so...

[LeaVerou]

Closing, see #425