[Geany-Users] copy line numbers with selected line or area

[Lex Trotman]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 09:12, Doug Henderson <djndnbvg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ben,
>
> One way to do this is to match the lines of interest with a find. The
> hits show up in the Messages Window where you can copy all or select
> and copy some lines, along with their filename and line numbers to the
> clipboard.
>
> I do this with log files where I select all the lines with a
> particular type of problem. I could also select some of the lines with
> a regexp on the timestamp.
>
> HTH
> Doug

Or you could actually number the lines in the buffer using a custom
command, on Linux see `man nl`.

Cheers
Lex


>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 at 13:25, Ben <bendov at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does Geany or any plugins have an option to copy the (current) line
> > number(s) with one or more selected & copied lines?  I can't find such
> > an option in Geany built in prefs, nor in any plugins.
> >
> > Like out of a large file & only a few random lines are copied to another
> > file, AND you may want to refer back to the orig. document, to view
> > UNcopied lines that are near the copied line.
> >
> > Sometimes you might want to see what was executed or logged just before
> > or after lines that were copied.
> > Thanks.
> >
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