Feature request: add global command line options to turn on source code line numbers

[xiaohanyu]

Hi,

Is there any way to enabled line numbers for source code? I think it is useful to add this as a global command line option and I think it should not be too hard to implement this.

Thanks!

[jgm]

See https://github.com/jgm/highlighting-kate/issues/40

[xiaohanyu]

Oh, I know, thanks!

[jgm]

I now see that this isn't what you were asking about -- rather, you wanted a global option.
Reopening.

[mb21]

If I understand this correctly, we do have line number on code blocks now, right? For LaTeX, use --listings, for HTML use an attribute like {.numberLines} on the code block.

[jgm]

The request was for a global option to do this (not requiring adding an attribute to each code block).
We don't have that.
Of course, it could be done with a lua filter, which adds the attribute to each code block, and maybe that's sufficient?