From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line numbers Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 19:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <49d206f7-d167-475d-aa61-39661ffab7a6@st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338777015 13404 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2012 02:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 02:30:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 04:30:15 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 1SbN3c-0005eX-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:30:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbN3c-0000dl-MX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:30:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.74.133.115 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1338776992 29413 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2012 02:29:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 02:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: st3g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.74.133.115; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192687 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:85092 Archived-At: On Jun 4, 12:36=A0am, Dan Espen wrote: > 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. Also you can go to a specific line with M-g g or M-g M-g