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From: sm2@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk (Simon Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Shutdown: EMACS vs. vi
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Date: 3 Jun 91 17:25:31 GMT
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| Michael D Mellinger (melling@cs.psu.edu) writes:
|   In article ... datri@convex.com (Anthony A.) writes:
| 
|    >programmer. I don't want to write "what-line" (9 keystrokes).
| 
|    10 or 11, actually, counting the M-X.
| 
| I get 9 too.  M-x wha<SPACE>l<SPACE><RETURN>.

	Well *I* get 8!  Try M-x wha<RET>l<RET>

	Can anyone beat that!

	As has been pointed out (back to serious discussion), once you get
     used to it & use Emacs' compile/grep etc interfaces, you will see why
     line numbers are relatively hard to get at; they're not normally
     necessary - they're something you can forget all about.  No more
     "Error x at line y"!!!  I do remember when I first used Emacs how I
     could get at my beloved line numbers, but now I needn't care...

	Si. 
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