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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Making Emacs to show line number Post 46870 by RTM on Wednesday 28th of January 2004 10:43:21 AM
Old 01-28-2004
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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b2m(1)							      General Commands Manual							    b2m(1)

NAME

       b2m - convert old Emacs Rmail Babyl format to mbox format

SYNOPSIS

       b2m < babyl-file > mbox-file

DESCRIPTION

       b2m  accepts Babyl format mail (as used by older versions of Rmail in GNU Emacs) on standard input, and converts it to mbox format on stan-
       dard output.  Babyl was the storage format used by Rmail prior to Emacs 23.1.  Since then, it uses standard mbox format.  This  program	is
       distributed with GNU Emacs.

OPTIONS

       The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information.

       -h, --help
	      Display basic usage information.

SEE ALSO

       The  Babyl  format  is  described in the file etc/BABYL in the Emacs distribution.  Rmail is documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which  you
       can  read  using Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone program.

AUTHORS

       b2m was originally written by Ed Wilkinson.  Francesco Potorti updated it according to the GNU coding standards.

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice  are
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       Permission  is  granted	to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
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