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Article #188814Re: Line numbers in emacs?
From: Boris Hemkemeier
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 12:19
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 12:19
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In article <1991Jul11.135257@palm.cs.Virginia.EDU> mwb5y@palm.cs.Virginia.EDU (Mark W. Bailey) writes: >No, the question ["Who has a working solution for the line number problem" B.H.] >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! You are absolutly right, if you dont leave the computer world. But here my reason: I print parts of a file and want to know the number of pages i need. Okay, i could use count-lines-region, but my eye is faster than my hand. Boris -- Boris Hemkemeier "Warum muss ich es gerade wissen?" boris@math10.uni-bielefeld.de Georg Buechner: Leonce und Lena
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b9a,8784c3b1f0820646 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b9a,public X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,8784c3b1f0820646 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-12 06:08:45 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unibi.uni-bielefeld.de!math10!boris From: boris@math10.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Line numbers in emacs? Keywords: line numbers,emacs Message-ID: <1991Jul12.121936.21496@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: 12 Jul 91 12:19:36 GMT References: <BARVIAN.91Jul8161539@cocopah.sps.mot.com> <9107091510.AA05945@horatio> <1991Jul11.123516.16494@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> <1991Jul11.135257@palm.cs.Virginia.EDU> Sender: @unibi.uni-bielefeld.de Organization: Math MadHouse Bielefeld Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: math10.uni-bielefeld.de