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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: More Text Widget Questions
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Date: 23 Dec 88 17:39:09 GMT
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> Question 1: I would like to select a line with the mouse, 
> and figure out what line number that is in the file.  How?

> Question 2:  Related to number 1, given a line number in the
> file, how do I display that part of the file, ie. linenumber -n 
> to linenumber +n?

> Question 3: How do I change the source file name?  I want to
> display a different file without exiting.  I don't want to 
> change (edit) the current file, I want to display a different file.

I shudder to suggest this since the code for xmh is so ugly, but...
xmh does all of these things, perhaps you should take a look at it,
it is on the X tape - clients/xmh.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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