How can I open a file with line numbers displayed from the command line in 'vi'?

Question

I've seen so many examples/usages about how to display/hide line numbers in vi edit mode.

To turn on line numbers: Type :set number in edit mode

To turn off line numbers: Type :set nonumber in edit mode

I wonder whether there is any convenient way/option available (that I may not be knowing) to specify/mention this option at the time of opening the file from the command line?

NOTE: For example, to go to a specific line inside a file after opening it, we can conveniently say vi +/<linenumber> <filename> from the command line.

Answer 1

You can use:

vi +"set number" your_file

Answer 2

You can use:

vi +set\ number <filename>

or put "set number" to your ~/.vimrc

Answer 3

How about if you create a separate vim settings file for both cases? For example, ~/.vimrc-number and ~/.vimrc-nonumber. Then you can launch those like this:

vim -u ~/.vimrc-number /some/text/file
vim -u ~/.vimrc-nonumber /some/text/file

Or create aliases to your .bashrc:

alias vimnumbers="vim -u ~/.vimrc-number"
alias vimnonumbers="vim -u ~/.vimrc-nonumber"

Answer 4

If wrongly answered your question first. My answer was:

The exact syntax, to jump to a line is :

vi +linenumber filename 

or

vi filename +linenumber

Where linenumber is a number.

And the correct answer to your question is:

vi +set\ number <filename>

Which will provides lines number while editing filename.

Answer 5

Looks to me like you answered your own question; Maybe you need to rephrase the question?? :D

vi +LINENUMBER nameoffile

Answer 6

One can use alias, add alias vim='vim +"set number"' to ~/.bashrc,then source ~/.bashrc done.

Answer 7

If you want to have the line numbers and to jump to the line number you can use the +"set number" and +linenumber :

vi +set\ number your_file +171