The window number overlay fails to show up unless ace-window-display-mode is enabled and aw-display-mode-overlay is non-nil, which means that if ace-window-display-mode is disabled, there is no way to have the overlay appear. This seems to be a direct consequence from the addition of the conditional in the following lines in the most recent commit (in ace-window.el in the aw-select function, lines 552-555):
The window number overlay fails to show up unless
ace-window-display-mode
is enabled andaw-display-mode-overlay
is non-nil, which means that iface-window-display-mode
is disabled, there is no way to have the overlay appear. This seems to be a direct consequence from the addition of the conditional in the following lines in the most recent commit (in ace-window.el in theaw-select
function, lines 552-555):