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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Line numbers
Message-ID: <2201@pur-phy>
Date: 27 Apr 89 04:25:27 GMT
References: <39135@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <39135@bbn.COM> dpaulso@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes:
<Jeff Ferguson <ucdavis!uop!jeff@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> writes:
<<	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.  [...]
<
<the best thing to do is to run your compiles from inside emacs, using 
<M-x compile.  documentation for this function follows:
< [...]
<  You can then use the command C-x ` to find the next error message
<  and move to the source code that caused it.

This doesn't seem to work very well with TeX.  First, M-x compile
doesn't seem to run your compile in an interactive shell.  (could be
wrong about this one)  Second, it has trouble parsing the TeX error
messages.  I usually just run it in a shell window and use 
M-x < C-u # C-n.  Pretty gross, but it seems to work.

-Sho