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Re: line numbers
From: |
Bruce Korb |
Subject: |
Re: line numbers |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:27:06 -0800 |
Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>
> Matthew Low wrote:
>
> > I'm using Emacs 21.2.1. Is there any way to display line numbers on the
> > screen as you are typing?
>
> Yes:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LineNumbers
>
> I'm curious why you want this, though. I've noticed a number of people
> asking about this, and can't see where it would be useful, given some of
> emacs' other features.
Because sometimes I want to X-clip a block of text with line numbers
and email or print it. In the end, I fire up vi. Doing this in emacs
is too non-obvious.