Using linum-mode displays line numbers to the left of the left fringe. I would expect them to remain visible regardless of any horizontal scrolling, since that's how the left fringe behaves (not to mention numerous other editors and applications). However, when using line-truncation, the line numbers disappear when the text is horizontally scrolled. I think this is worth fixing, because it would be more useful and look better (the dead space takes up screen real-estate and makes me sad). To reproduce, run 'emacs -Q', then: 1. Type a long line of text (enough to exhibit line-wrapping). 2. Go to the beginning of line. C-a 3. Turn on line truncation. M-: (setq truncate-lines t) 4. Turn on line-numbers. M-x linum-mode 5. Move cursor forward past the right-edge of the window. C-f ... 6. When the beginning of line scrolls out of view, the line numbers disappear. 7. Move cursor back towards the beginning of line. C-b ... 8. Confirm that the line-numbers reappear as soon as the beginning of line is back in view. System and version info below: In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0, NS appkit-1404.47 Version 10.11.6 (Build 15G31)) of 2016-07-28 built on MachineCode.local Repository revision: ec359399a47f852b4d022a30245449438e349193 Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1404 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Configured using: 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/HEAD-ec35939/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/HEAD-ec35939 --with-xml2 --without-dbus --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained' Configured features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message subr-x puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 205473 6422) (symbols 48 20545 0) (miscs 40 43 141) (strings 32 18220 6425) (string-bytes 1 585506) (vectors 16 34498) (vector-slots 8 666572 7372) (floats 8 177 13) (intervals 56 222 0) (buffers 976 11))