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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: <None>
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Date: 30 May 91 23:22:37 GMT
References: <1991May30.142750.9342@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In-reply-to: ury@cosmos.huji.ac.il's message of 30 May 91 14:27:50 GMT

In article <1991May30.142750.9342@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ury@cosmos.huji.ac.il (ury segal) writes:

| In article <1991May30.124131.4679@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> write:
| >2) I only need to use what-line and friends on very, very rare
| >   occasions, like once in every two or three months of quite heavy
| >   Emacs use for a variety of tasks.  In fact, I didn't remember
| >   (what-line) from the last time I used it, so I actually needed to
| >   look it up, as described above, to answer your question.  I find it
| >   curious that you needed it within the first few hours of beginning
| >   to use the editor.  Your working style must be quite different from
| >   mine.
| 
| I'm a programmer. I need the line numbers 'cause the compiler give
| them to me to tell me where the errors are.
| 
| Look, everybody, I ment that EMACS is to complex to people like me, not
| because I'm stupid but It's that I don't need all those features. just
| the simple one. And the access to them is nod so easy as in vi.

In Gnu-emacs, to goto a specific line number do:

	M-x goto-line <return>
	<line number> <return>

(or)

	C-U <line-number> M-x goto-line
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
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