I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I do use relative line numbers in my active window, because I've been trying to get used to them, but it's not working that well for me.
If it's a couple of lines, like less than 10, I'm find just eyeballing it. If it's more than that I'll either use some combination of HM and L to get close, then eyeball it, or I'll use the actual line number like d107G which is more keypresses but is just as targetted as the relative numbers.
To be honest, my brain kind of gets upset with them changing as I move around!
I feel the mental overhead of deciding between eyeballing the movement and using relative line numbers in those scenarios as well. Pay attention to what you do when you're in flow. That might be the most effective for you. Feels like any movement ~+/- 5 lines can be easily eyeballed.
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I do use relative line numbers in my active window, because I've been trying to get used to them, but it's not working that well for me.
If it's a couple of lines, like less than 10, I'm find just eyeballing it. If it's more than that I'll either use some combination of
HMandLto get close, then eyeball it, or I'll use the actual line number liked107Gwhich is more keypresses but is just as targetted as the relative numbers.To be honest, my brain kind of gets upset with them changing as I move around!
I feel the mental overhead of deciding between eyeballing the movement and using relative line numbers in those scenarios as well. Pay attention to what you do when you're in flow. That might be the most effective for you. Feels like any movement ~+/- 5 lines can be easily eyeballed.