Finding what LINE you are on
The default version of Emacs on Athena has line numbering
automatically. If you are using an earlier version, you may have to
turn it on.
The line number is displayed in the "mode line" at the bottom of the
screen. If you look down at the bottom of the screen, you should see
a section that has "--L#--" where the "#" is the line number your text
cursor is currently on. If line numbering currently isn't on in your
emacs window, just type:
Meta-x line-number-mode
If you wish to turn on line numbering always, you can put the line:
(setq line-number-mode t)
in your .emacs file. If you wish to have it always be off, put in:
(setq line-number-mode nil)
Similarly, there is a column-number-mode that works the same way.
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There are several other related commands you can also use to determine
the line number and perform line number functions. If you want to find
out the number of the line where the cursor is, type this:
M-x what-line
If you want to move the cursor to a particular line, type this:
M-x goto-line
followed by the line number.
If you want to know how many lines are in a region of text, use:
M-x count-lines-region
or
M-=
Last updated on 4/15/00
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