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Comment by spajus | Hacker News Reader

I'm living happily with this:

"relative number switches - show numbers in insert mode, relative in normal

autocmd InsertEnter * :set number

autocmd InsertLeave * :set relativenumber

I have two more events since I don't need relative numbers in a buffer that I'm not currently working in:

  set relativenumber
  autocmd InsertEnter,WinLeave * :set norelativenumber
  autocmd InsertLeave,WinEnter * :set relativenumber

(Also, :set number does not reset to non-relative numbers anymore for me)