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  • 04-05-2005 1:37am
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    damnyanks
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    Hey,

    Just working on my assignment and got a little stuck. I've to create a text editor for a unix enviroment. Anyways... one of the commands (Its meant to be like VI I guess ;) ) is to display the document to screen which is easy enough obviously :)

    However... it must display numbered lines. Anyone know if there are any built in libraries to do this with either C(1989 standard) or Unix calls ? Or am I going to have to count each line manually and print off a new number?


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    ressem
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    By what means are you displaying the document to screen?
    E.g. are you using ncurses library with output buffering? QT? printf?

    Ok I'll guess that you're trying to copy "less -N filename".

    Built in C library? Short answer, you'll have to manage keeping track of line numbers yourself. Don't know enough about your prog (scrolling/ linewrapping/resizable window?) to say whether this is trivial or not.


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