From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:36:05 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338752415 26256 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2012 19:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 21:40:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbGer-0007br-7y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbGeq-0002yy-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:40:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="eEvqGQsJJYL9/mBIdBpRPw"; logging-data="21561"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+B2KjORjz4JOVDUQ0KDKpphTbb0JY5B1k=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Z6YQnEEdsVFf+PIqioIrRWfgFw= sha1:MPfcfDeDsPQr8HZnn30caHy+WSU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192686 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85091 Archived-At: Andrew Michael Levin 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