Re: rookie question How to jump to line#

[B. T. Raven]

"billy" <bp1497@att.com> wrote in message
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> How do I jump to a line #?
> How do I tell emacs to display line #?
>

In version 22 it's M-g g
In earlier versions you could put something like one of these in .emacs:

(global-set-key [(super g)] 'goto-line)

or

(global-set-key [(hyper g)] 'goto-line)

or

(defalias 'gtl 'goto-line)
and then then type M-x gtl (Alt-x gtl)

Ed