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googleartist@yahoo.com (Artist) writes:

>  I code in LISP and Perl and I like to know How I can number the
> parans temporarily. Especially when having compiler error in perl,
> some time I have to guess where I am missing the parens. So if there
> are numbering.. ie..

I suggest to do C-x h C-M-\.  Then Emacs will show you where the
missing paren is, because of wrong indenting.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.