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From: dpaulso@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL
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Subject: Re: Line numbers
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Date: 26 Apr 89 14:52:41 GMT
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Jeff Ferguson <ucdavis!uop!jeff@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> writes:

>	Hi kids,
>
>	Is there any way to go to a specific line number?  When my
>compiler tells me there is an error on line 33, I would like to know
>where line 33 is.  I have looked everywhere but I cannot find what I
>want.  Thank you for any help you can provide.

the best thing to do is to run your compiles from inside emacs, using 
M-x compile.  documentation for this function follows:

  compile:
  Compile the program including the current buffer.  Default: run `make'.
  Runs COMMAND, a shell command, in a separate process asynchronously
  with output going to the buffer *compilation*.
  You can then use the command C-x ` to find the next error message
  and move to the source code that caused it.

This is especially nice if your emacs takes a while to fire up,
due to a hefty .emacs file

/dave

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