Re: line numbers

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Jan 07 2003, Bruce Korb wrote:

> Because sometimes I want to X-clip a block of text with line numbers
> and email or print it.  In the end, I fire up vi.  Doing this in
> emacs is too non-obvious.

`C-u M-| nl RET' might be your friend (for e-mail).

,----[ C-h k M-| ]
| M-| runs the command shell-command-on-region
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (shell-command-on-region START END COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER
| REPLACE ERROR-BUFFER)
| 
| Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell with region as input.
| Normally display output (if any) in temp buffer `*Shell Command Output*';
| Prefix arg means replace the region with it.  Return the exit code of
| COMMAND. [...]
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Bye, Reiner.
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