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Re: line numbers


From: Dan Espen
Subject: Re: line numbers
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:36:05 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Andrew Michael Levin <andrew.m.levin@vanderbilt.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> How can I get line numbers to show up in emacs?

line number mode shows the current line number in
the status bar.

But let me give my default advice:

If you think you need to see line numbers, you
may be doing something wrong.

Those line numbers you see on a failed compilation
can be accessed directly by running the compile
inside Emacs with M-x compile, and the line in error
can be accessed without a number with M-x next-error.

M-x grep has the same facilities.

I turn line number mode on, but I can't say I actually
look at line numbers very often.

-- 
Dan Espen


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