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Article #26705Re: Is there a way to get line numbers in MPW?
From: Paul Smethers
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 03:49
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 03:49
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In article <232@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes: >While people are right in saying that hitting enter on the error report does >jump to the given line, they are right only in a limited way. This mechanism >is not really smart enough. If you have two or more errors, and in correcting >the first one, you increase/decrease the number of lines in the file, hitting >enter on the second error report takes you to the wrong place. > Again, I only use mpw's "compare" function which works similarly. With compare, I work through the differences from the bottom up, starting with the last comparison and working backwards to the first. This way, if I change the line count in something I changed in one file, the line numbers of previous problems are not affected (as I changed something following those lines, not before them). Paul Smethers SmethersBarnes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!smethers From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is there a way to get line numbers in MPW? Message-ID: <559@psu-cs.UUCP> Date: 24 Mar 88 03:49:02 GMT References: <2060@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7678@apple.Apple.Com> <232@cf-cm.UUCP> Reply-To: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers) Organization: SmethersBarnes Lines: 16