I love the relative line numbering feature in Vim 7.3, but am having trouble making it stick universally. For many files, line numbering reverts to absolute mode, even though I have specified:
set rnu
in my .vimrc file. Any idea what could be causing this? I am using Vim 7.3 on OSX 10.6, with the Janus package of extensions.
Try using :verbose set rnu? and :verbose set nu? to find the script that is causing the problem.
Add this to your .vimrc.after:
set nonumber
set relativenumber
Relative line numbers should persist with these settings.
Try putting set rnu at the very end of your .vimrc. Relative numbering is mutually exclusive with absolute numbering. I suspect Janus is trying to be smart and sets absolute numbering for some filetypes.
