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From: ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get line numbers in MPW?
Message-ID: <232@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 08:13:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: rmh@Apple.COM's message of 14 Mar 88 22:24:58 GMT

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While people are right in saying that hitting enter on the error report does
jump to the given line, they are right only in a limited way. This mechanism
is not really smart enough. If you have two or more errors, and in correcting 
the first one, you increase/decrease the number of lines in the file, hitting
enter on the second error report takes you to the wrong place.

The mechanism needs to be more subtle, and take you to the line IN THE 
ORIGINAL file with that line number, not the LINE IN THE EDITED FILE.

I have seen systems which get this right. Perhaps Apple could look into 
making this a bit smarter in future versions of MPW.