How to delete line numbers in vim?

Question

I set the line numbers in vim using :%!cat -n as suggested here . Line numbers appear, but now when I open vim, I get errors "E481: No range allowed:", and now I want to get rid of line numbers. But how?

Answer 1

You can try this first to get line numbers:

 :%!cat -n % 

If you have not saved, you can return to the last save:

 :e! 

If you have line numbers, you can get rid of them like this

 :%s/^[[:blank:]]*[0-9]*\t//