NeoVim: set signcolumn=number does not work. How to merge sign column with line number column?

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votes

When I add set signcolumn=number in to init.vim I get this message on startup:

Error detected while processing ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:
line 17:
E474: Invalid argument: signcolumn=number
Press ENTER or type command to continue

How to merge signs column with line number column in NeoVim ?

My NeoVim version:

NVIM v0.4.4
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.0.5

Thank you for your help

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"number", not "numbers". - Matt
@Matt Thank you for suggestion, but it does not change anything. Error still remains - Jan Černý
You're using an outdated version then. Before asking a question you should 1) check your version number; 2) check :help to see if options are supported; 3) update to the last version etc. In particular, 0.4.4 doesn't support "signcolumn=number". You must update to 0.5.0. - Matt
@Matt Pacman is telling me that 0.4.4 is newest version even after sudo pacman -Syy. - Jan Černý
And how is pacman relevant here? - Matt

1 Answers

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votes

Solution to this problem is to upgrade NeoVim to version 0.5.0. At the moment this version is not officially released. You can still install dev version.

Installation guide

Windows

  1. Extract nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win32.zip)
  2. Run nvim-qt.exe

MacOS

  1. Download nvim-macos.tar.gz
  2. Extract: tar xzvf nvim-macos.tar.gz
  3. Run ./nvim-osx64/bin/nvim

Linux (x64)

  1. Download nvim.appimage
  2. Run chmod u+x nvim.appimage && ./nvim.appimage
  3. If your system does not have FUSE you can extract the appimage:
./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
./squashfs-root/usr/bin/nvim

Official stable release is planed on Christmas 2020. Here is project milestone