Re: line numbers

[Bruce Korb]

Benjamin Lewis wrote:
> 
> Matthew Low wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Emacs 21.2.1. Is there any way to display line numbers on the
> > screen as you are typing?
> 
> Yes:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LineNumbers
> 
> I'm curious why you want this, though.  I've noticed a number of people
> asking about this, and can't see where it would be useful, given some of
> emacs' other features.

Because sometimes I want to X-clip a block of text with line numbers
and email or print it.  In the end, I fire up vi.  Doing this in emacs
is too non-obvious.