Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Christian Seberino]

Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

I think XEmacs has line-number but not Emacs.

Chris

Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Henrik Enberg]

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

There is setnu.el, but it only works so so, I recall.

<http://www.wonderworks.com/download/setnu.el>

Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[gebser]

Having

(setq-default line-number-mode t)

puts the number of the current line (the one the cursor is on) in the 
modeline.  Is that the sort of "function" you're referring to?


Name withheld because it's too much to type.


At 20:42 (UTC+0100) on Mon, 12 Jan 2004 Henrik Enberg said:

= seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
= 
= > Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?
= 
= There is setnu.el, but it only works so so, I recall.
= 
= <http://www.wonderworks.com/download/setnu.el>
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Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Christian Seberino]

gebser

I just wanted a function that returned the line number of
current point that I could use anywhere.

I need a function like %l I can use to return a number


e.g. (line-number)

Chris

P.S. I just want to replace %l with something clearer
in my .emacs.  That's all.

gebser@speakeasy.net wrote in message news:<mailman.651.1074102458.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> Having
> 
> (setq-default line-number-mode t)
> 
> puts the number of the current line (the one the cursor is on) in the 
> modeline.  Is that the sort of "function" you're referring to?
> 
> 
> Name withheld because it's too much to type.
> 
> 
> At 20:42 (UTC+0100) on Mon, 12 Jan 2004 Henrik Enberg said:
> 
> = seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:
> = 
> = > Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?
> = 
> = There is setnu.el, but it only works so so, I recall.
> = 
> = <http://www.wonderworks.com/download/setnu.el>
> = _______________________________________________
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> = Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> =

Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Christopher J. White]

>>>>> "chris" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

chris> I just wanted a function that returned the line number of
chris> current point that I could use anywhere.

How about (what-line)?

...cj

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Re: Does Emacs have a line-number function or is %l the only equivalent?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Christopher J. White wrote:

>>>>>>"chris" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
>>>>>>
> 
> chris> I just wanted a function that returned the line number of
> chris> current point that I could use anywhere.
> 
> How about (what-line)?

As its doc string says, it prints the line number (and more) in the echo

area.  Better is (count-lines (point-min) (point)), which actually returns
a number.  And if you want to ignore any narrowing that may be in effect,
you need to do

(save-restriction
   (widen)
   (count-lines (point-min) (point)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers