From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:27:34 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E245696.7010106@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042569093 1745 80.91.224.249 (14 Jan 2003 18:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YVqW-0000Ry-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:31:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YVpS-0000Zf-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:30:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042568852 21672366 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108953 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5481 Lee Sau Dan wrote: >>>>>>"Bruce" == Bruce Korb writes: >>>>>> > > Bruce> Because sometimes I want to X-clip a block of text with > Bruce> line numbers and email or print it. In the end, I fire up > Bruce> vi. Doing this in emacs is too non-obvious. > > M-< M-> M-| cat -n RET and then do whatever you like in the *Shell > Command Output* buffer. I find `C-x h' easier than `M-< M->'. See the "Marking Objects" node in the Emacs manual for similar useful commands. -- Kevin Rodgers