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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 develop

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`