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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Jove - GoLine Function - Fix?
Message-ID: <265@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 21:36:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 21:36:46 1986
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> Anyone know why the goto-line function in Jove doesn't work?  It seems
> that it doesn't allow the user to enter a line number to goto.
> ...
> It doesn't appear to make any calls to request user input.
> --
> Ron Flax  (ron@dsi1.UUCP)
> ARPA:	dsi1!ron@seismo.arpa
> UUCP:	..!{seismo, rlgvax, prometheus}!dsi1!ron

It takes the line number as a numeric prefix argument.  E.g., if you
have goto-line bound to ESC G (as I do), to go to line 137, you type:

	ESC 1 3 7 ESC G
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