Showing relative line numbers

[screendriver]

Often I want to use the J key (Jump to entry/offset) but then I have to "calculate" the amount of rows by my own with my eyes. So for example J +10 for going down 10 lines. But often it was 8 or 11 or something like that. So it would be really cool if there would be an option in nnn to show relative line numbers like in (n)vim or other file managers like xplr

[jarun]

But often it was 8 or 11 or something like that.

Please let us know how to reproduce this.

We don't have any plans to show relative numbers.

[screendriver]

Here is an example how xplr is rendering the nnn plugins directory for example. Focus is at cmusq. If I want to jump to boom I just can do (and see) it with the classic vim keystroke 4k. If I want to jump to dups it is just a 3j. I can do almost exactly the same with nnn and the J key, but I cannot see immediately with my eyes which number I have to enter. So in nnn it would be J-4 to jump to boom but I have to count all of the lines by myself. This is especially difficult with large lists. I know I could also just start a search with / but directly jumping to a line number/index is really convenient in my opinion 🙂 I could also imagine that nnn is not rendering the index at all but only after pressing the J key to get a visual indicator where to jump to directly.

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[Darukutsu]

@screendriver try to apply following patch. It isn't something beautiful. Diff lines can differ, since I have more custom patches applied. Edit wrong patch uploaded.

diff --git a/src/nnn.c b/src/nnn.c
index deb00209..9c06a901 100644
--- a/src/nnn.c
+++ b/src/nnn.c
@@ -4223,11 +4223,36 @@ static uchar_t get_color_pair_name_ind(const struct entry *ent, char *pi
nd, int
        return C_UND;
 }
 
+static inline void show_linenumber(void)
+{
+        char formated_index[10];
+
+        short cursor_indx= cur + 2 - curscroll;
+        short count_up= cursor_indx - 1;
+        short count_down= ndents - cursor_indx + 2;
+
+        snprintf(formated_index, 10, " %d", cursor_indx - 1);
+        mvaddstr(cursor_indx, 0, formated_index);
+
+        for (short i = 1; i < count_up; i++) {
+                snprintf(formated_index, 10, "-%d", i);
+                mvaddstr(cursor_indx-i, 0, formated_index);
+        }
+
+        for (short i = 1; i < count_down; i++) {
+                snprintf(formated_index, 10, "+%d", i);
+                mvaddstr(cursor_indx+i, 0, formated_index);
+        }
+}
+
 static void printent(const struct entry *ent, uint_t namecols, bool sel)
 {
        char ind = '\0';
        int attrs;
 
+        /* Print space for index SEL_JUMP */
+        printw("%*s", 7, "");
+
        if (cfg.showdetail) {
                int type = ent->mode & S_IFMT;
                char perms[6] = {' ', ' ', (char)('0' + ((ent->mode >> 6) & 7)),
@@ -6124,32 +6149,6 @@ static void handle_screen_move(enum action sel)
                move_cursor(curscroll, 1);
                curscroll -= onscreen >> 1;
                break;
-       case SEL_JUMP:
-       {
-               char *input = xreadline(NULL, "jump (+n/-n/n): ");
-
-               if (!input || !*input)
-                       break;
-               if (input[0] == '-') {
-                       cur -= atoi(input + 1);
-                       if (cur < 0)
-                               cur = 0;
-               } else if (input[0] == '+') {
-                       cur += atoi(input + 1);
-                       if (cur >= ndents)
-                               cur = ndents - 1;
-               } else {
-                       int index = atoi(input);
-
-                       if ((index < 1) || (index > ndents))
-                               break;
-                       cur = index - 1;
-               }
-               onscreen = xlines - 4;
-               move_cursor(cur, 1);
-               curscroll -= onscreen >> 1;
-               break;
-       }
        case SEL_HOME:
                move_cursor(0, 1);
                break;
@@ -7251,13 +7250,39 @@ nochange:
                case SEL_HOME: // fallthrough
                case SEL_END: // fallthrough
                case SEL_FIRST: // fallthrough
-               case SEL_JUMP: // fallthrough
                case SEL_YOUNG:
                        if (ndents) {
                                g_state.move = 1;
                                handle_screen_move(sel);
                        }
                        break;
+                case SEL_JUMP:
+                {
+                        show_linenumber();
+                        char *input = xreadline(NULL, "jump (+n/-n/n): ");
+
+                        if (!input || !*input)
+                                goto begin;
+                        if (input[0] == '-') {
+                                cur -= atoi(input + 1);
+                                if (cur < 0)
+                                        cur = 0;
+                        } else if (input[0] == '+') {
+                                cur += atoi(input + 1);
+                                if (cur >= ndents)
+                                        cur = ndents - 1;
+                        } else {
+                                int index = atoi(input);
+
+                                if ((index < 1) || (index > ndents))
+                                        break;
+                                cur = index - 1;
+                        }
+                        int onscreen = xlines - 4;
+                        move_cursor(cur, 1);
+                        curscroll -= onscreen >> 1;
+                        break;
+                }
                case SEL_CDHOME: // fallthrough
                case SEL_CDBEGIN: // fallthrough
                case SEL_CDLAST: // fallthrough

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Added in 0738f39