"Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > it might be generally useful to have a command that picks up the > > line-number from the text at point (whenever that text can be > > parsed as a numeral) and does `goto-line' in buffer > > `(other-buffer (current-buffer) t)'. > > We already have that, it's compilation-minor-mode. > > Looking at the code for compilation-minor-mode (as I'm inexperienced with > it), I see no connection with what I suggested. That mode appears to work > only in buffers that can be parsed to work with next-error etc.
Sorry, I misunderstood your suggestion. > What I suggested was a simple command to pick up a numeral from any buffer, > regardless of what the numeral might mean in that buffer. It would be > rudimentary, but would do at least what people are doing with `goto-line', > without requiring them to key in the line number. A minor suggestion - > that's all. You already don't have to type the number, just mark, copy and paste it. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
