From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: edelman@umbc.edu (Mitch Edelman) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: a couple of novice questions Date: 12 Dec 2003 11:31:26 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071247711 30152 80.91.224.253 (12 Dec 2003 16:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 17:48:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUqSe-00086f-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:48:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUrPO-0005Vb-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:48:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!zeus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!feed.news.qwest.net!news.ums.edu!news.umbc.edu!linux3.gl.umbc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: linux3.gl.umbc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.umbc.edu 1071246686 19996 130.85.60.39 (12 Dec 2003 16:31:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umbc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119260 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15199 apologies for newbie question - using Xemacs (for windows)how does one display the line number of the file currently being edited? Secondly, how does one find a matching opening brace, paren, etc? Finally, in editing a document where it's reasonable for "<" to be unpaired (as in javascript code inside an html document), how does one find the opening prace, paren, etc. Thanks in advance, Mitch Edelman