Re: Line numbers in emacs?

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From: Mark W. Bailey
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1991 17:52

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Boris Hemkemeier writes:
>
> I used S.B.s program and it works fine, but the bugs (C-v and M-v) are
> nasty. The question is still open:
> 
> 			Who has a working solution?
> 

No, the question is, WHY would you want line numbers!? The most common
use of line numbers is for reporting errors, and emacs parses errors FOR
you. I can't think of a reason why you'ld ever want to know a line's number.
Sometimes (not too often) you want to goto a particular line, so use
goto-line!

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Mark W. Bailey				bailey@cs.virginia.edu
Computer Science Department		..uunet!virginia!uvacs!bailey
Thornton Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903

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