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Why not? It's the only proper text editor that lets someone else see what you're writing with the click of a single button.

by lazugod 15y ago

nicpottier 15y ago
Although you make an interesting point, I'm really having a hard time thinking of where a "Go to line.." command comes in handy in Mail though. E-mail is so often reformatted, munged and quoted that depending on line numbers being the same on the sender's side seems foolish.
- hboon 15y ago
  Your cursor is at line 200. You read through your email and want to make a change in a certain paragraph. That happens to be at line 180. So you "Go to..." 180.
  - nicpottier 15y ago
    Interesting.. I've never used "Go to line" in that way, probably because my text editor never has line numbers showing. For me it is always to jump to the point of an exception or somesuch.. maybe I'll try it for a while. PS. I use Emacs for virtually everything so C-N, C-P and M-N, M-P get used for that kind of navigation.
    - hboon 15y ago
      I use MacVim. When you want to edit or add some code, isn't it more common to want to do it at a particular spot rather than reacting to a exception/warning? That's how I do it anyway. The only reasons I can come up with off the top of my head to do otherwise is if someone is doing heavy TDD or banging code into a Smalltalk debugger instead of a browser. How do you do it? (Genuine question. I almost always code by myself and have never been around anyone while they are productively working with an editor.)
      - nicpottier 15y ago
        I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years. Getting quick at line up/line down (C-N, C-P) and page up/page down (M-P, M-V in Emacs) seems to be a more common way of navigation. (C-S for quick search in Emacs being the other) I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error. (TDD or not, stack traces are a way of life)
        masklinn 15y ago
        > I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years. > I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error. yes that's pretty much it: use external tool to find some row (diff tells you this is where a chunk was changed, grep or ack tells you what you're looking for is there, ...), jump straight to row. Although usually I'll open the file directly at the right line in emacs (`e +line file`[0]), goto-line is only for the IDE. [0] where `e` is an alias for `emacsclient -n`
tikhonj 15y ago
Emacs can send emails, you know ;)

Why not? It's the only proper text editor that lets someone else see what you're writing with the click of a single button.

by lazugod 15y ago

Why not? It's the only proper text editor that lets someone else see what you're writing with the click of a single button.

nicpottier 15y ago

Although you make an interesting point, I'm really having a hard time thinking of where a "Go to line.." command comes in handy in Mail though. E-mail is so often reformatted, munged and quoted that depending on line numbers being the same on the sender's side seems foolish.

hboon 15y ago
Your cursor is at line 200. You read through your email and want to make a change in a certain paragraph. That happens to be at line 180. So you "Go to..." 180.
- nicpottier 15y ago
  Interesting.. I've never used "Go to line" in that way, probably because my text editor never has line numbers showing. For me it is always to jump to the point of an exception or somesuch.. maybe I'll try it for a while. PS. I use Emacs for virtually everything so C-N, C-P and M-N, M-P get used for that kind of navigation.
  - hboon 15y ago
    I use MacVim. When you want to edit or add some code, isn't it more common to want to do it at a particular spot rather than reacting to a exception/warning? That's how I do it anyway. The only reasons I can come up with off the top of my head to do otherwise is if someone is doing heavy TDD or banging code into a Smalltalk debugger instead of a browser. How do you do it? (Genuine question. I almost always code by myself and have never been around anyone while they are productively working with an editor.)
    - nicpottier 15y ago
      I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years. Getting quick at line up/line down (C-N, C-P) and page up/page down (M-P, M-V in Emacs) seems to be a more common way of navigation. (C-S for quick search in Emacs being the other) I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error. (TDD or not, stack traces are a way of life)
      - masklinn 15y ago
        > I've actually never met a developer that navigates a file using line numbers. Maybe it is the norm but I haven't seen it having worked with a few dozen developers over the years. > I use "Go-to-line" almost exclusively to jump to the line where a stack trace is telling me there's an error. yes that's pretty much it: use external tool to find some row (diff tells you this is where a chunk was changed, grep or ack tells you what you're looking for is there, ...), jump straight to row. Although usually I'll open the file directly at the right line in emacs (`e +line file`[0]), goto-line is only for the IDE. [0] where `e` is an alias for `emacsclient -n`

tikhonj 15y ago

Emacs can send emails, you know ;)