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From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get line numbers in MPW?
Message-ID: <559@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 03:49:02 GMT
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Reply-To: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
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In article <232@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>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.
>
Again, I only use mpw's "compare" function which works similarly.  With
compare, I work through the differences from the bottom up, starting with
the last comparison and working backwards to the first.  This way, if I
change the line count in something I changed in one file, the line numbers
of previous problems are not affected (as I changed something following
those lines, not before them).

Paul Smethers
SmethersBarnes