How to take off line numbers in Vi?

For turning off line numbers, any of these commands will work:

Display line numbers:

:set nu

Stop showing the line numbers:

:set nonu

Its short for :set nonumber

ps. These commands are to be run in normal mode.

If you are talking about show line number command in vi/vim

you could use

set nu

in commandline mode to turn on and

set nonu

will turn off the line number display or

set nu!

to toggle off display of line numbers

To turn off line numbering, again follow the preceding instructions, except this time enter the following line at the : prompt:

set nonumber

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