Re: is it possible to display line numbers in emacs?

[kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)]

1 - Please turn off HTML when posting to a newsgroup.  Not all of us
read news in a browser.

2 - Why do you want to display the line number?

If it's to be able to see what line the cursor is on, emacs, I think
by default, displays the line number in the modeline.

If it's to be able to goto a specific line, 

	M-x goto-line

is convenient.

If it's to step through compiler errors or the output of grep, 

	M-x next-error

is convenient.

In article <mailman.1172.1043921208.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
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>     is it possible to display line numbers in emacs (like in vi)?
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> i am using an emacs-21.2 on a redhat linux 7.1.
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