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Making Emacs to show line number
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How can I make Emacs to show the line numbers at the left or right as a default. This might help me to quickly jump to a given line.
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Try putting this in your .emacs file:

(line-number-mode 1)
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I tried that but it is not working. Actually, I do get line number on the mode line but I would like numbers at the left or right end of the buffer.
I have been suggested this
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LineNumbers
but I didn't understand abc of it. Can you please have a look at it and let me know.
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Sorry, I never even used emacs ( vi rules). Just searched for a possible solution to your problem to assist.

The code seems like a bit much for putting in line numbers but you might try it - seems to be the only thing to do if you really want the line numbers. And I have no clue of how you are suppose to use the program. I didn't find any 'set up' instructions.

I did note the waste of cpu...

Setnu is a mode that displays line numbers in Emacs buffers, much as the "set nu" command does under VI, hence the name. Setnu works under XEmacs and GNU Emacs. This package is best used on files with a few thousand lines at most, unless you have very fast hardware and are willing to waste it recalculating and redisplaying line numbers. The latest version of setnu is 1.06.
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Ok, I know you are not emacs user, so if you have to go to some line in the middle of buffer, how do you go there quickly? I though if I knew line number, I would use move to line funct to go there.
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Even if you could display line numbers in emacs, how would you know which line you were trying to skip to.. just guess which one is approximately "in the middle of the buffer"? ... and is there even a command in emacs that allows you to skip to a specified line?

Maybe it'd be easier to search for a string than to skip to a line number...

Take a look at this tutorial:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/UnixInt...html#emacs-6-3

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6.3.6 Quick reference for emacs

Cursor movement:

C-a beginning of line
C-e end of line
C-< top of document
C-> end of document
M-x goto-line Go to line
C-v page forward
M-v page backward

Deleting and moving text:

Backspace delete character before cursor
(subject to modification of .emacs)
C-d delete character under cursor
M-d delete word
C-k delete to end of line(s)
(restore with C-y)
C-SPC set mark
C-w delete from mark to cursor
(restore with C-y)

Search and replace:

C-s incremental search forward
C-r incremental search backward
C-% query replace
M-x replace-string <ENTER> <searchstr> <ENTER> <replstr>

Miscellaneous:

C-x u undo
C-x C-s save file
C-x C-f find file
C-x 2 2 windows
C-x 1 1 window
C-x o switch between windows
C-x b switch buffers
M-q reformat paragraph
C-x C-c quit

Useful customisable keys (configured using the provided .emacs file):

C-x g goto line
C-x c compile program (useful with C-x 2)
C-x C-u open Unix shell (useful with C-x 2)
C-x a repeat command
C-x m manual entry
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Yes, those are the keys that I am using though not all of them.
What I was looking is - if it numbers line of a file , then I can jump to a particular line immediately using go to line command ofcourse it will work good only for a page. how do you do this?
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