Your first mistake was not realizing that this "community" consists of a bunch of grumpy pedantic programmers working on trivial jobs. They feel small and insecure and the only way to remedy that is to put down people who have a smaller knowledge base than they do. On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Michael Levin < andrew.m.levin@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I get line numbers to show up in emacs? > > Andrew > > >