Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I like line numbers to help me figure out if I have a really long >> line of text. Most text editors do a poor job of handling this >> case, happily wrapping it, without telling you, so your key >> navigation across the long lines looks really funky. > > Line numbers are handy when you get that > > "syntax error in line 34 of file xyz.c" > > too..
Both emacs and vi will display line numbers if you ask them. Emacs has a really nice compile mode where it will compile in a second window, and jump right to every line in the source files that caused an error in sequence as you ask it. (It even accounts for line changes because of edits.) BSD Unix has a command called "error" that does something similar for you if you are using vi. (I don't know why it doesn't seem to be in most Linuxes, but it is open source and trivially ported.) Thanks to such tools, no one with a real editor need ever find lines with problems by hand, which means that although both editors will show you line numbers, you don't really need them. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf