[plug] Re: setnu mode in emacs

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, David Buddrige wrote:

> > You can jump straight to a line: M-g 

> is displayed in the status bar.  But if I want to jump directly to a line 
> several lines down containing some construct, it is very hard to know what 
> line number it is.  Subsequently, I have to use cursor keys to move down, 

I take it you dont like using a mouse click?
  I thought line numbers were there in case you dropped the stack of 
punch-cards.
  Maybe you just need to set the keyboard auto-repeat to be faster?
There must be a better way than typing line numbers.

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