How can I show line numbers in Eclipse

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How can I show line numbers by default in Eclipse

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If this doesn t work it may be overridden by your current settings  You can right-click in the bar to the left of the code where line numbers would normally appear and turn them on with the context menu

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The top answer is good but you can also bind it to a key   shorcut   to toggle it    Window   Preferences   Keys then enter  Line Numbers  in filter and bind it to a key    I use CTRL   S   L

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Windows   Preferences   General   Text Editors   Show numberlines

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one of the easy way is using shortcuts like   Ctrl F10  then press n  it show line number and hide line numbers

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the eclipse changes the perferences s position  to eclipse -  perferences

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Eclipse has a search feature in the top left box of the Preferences   Type in  line numbers  in that search box  and presto     In case you re tired of googling each time you forget

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Go to Windows   Preferences   General   Text Editors   Show numberlines  Click OK  then Apply changes  Then it will show the line count automatically

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Open Eclipse   goto -  Windows -  Preferences -  Editor -  Text Editors -  Show Line No  Tick the Show Line No checkbox

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in this file   workspace  metadata plugins org eclipse core runtime settings org eclipse ui editors prefs  make sure the parameter  lineNumberColor 0 0 0  is NOT 255 255  255  which is white

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Update November 2015  In Eclipse Mars 4 5 1  line numbers are  annoyingly  turned off by default again  Follow the below instructions to enable it   Update December 2013  Lars Vogel just published on his blog  Line numbers are default in Eclipse SDK Luna  4 4  as of today  December 10  2013   We conducted a user survey if users want to have line numbers activated in text editors in the Eclipse IDE by default  The response was very clear   YES   80 07   1852 responses  NO    19 93   461 responses  Total    2313 Skipped    15   With Bug 421313  Review - Line number should be activated by default  we enabled it for the Eclipse SDK build  I assume other Eclipse packages will follow    Update August 2014 Line number default length is now 120  instead of 80  for Eclipse Mars 4 5M1  See  quot How to customize Eclipse s text editor code formating quot    Original answer  March 2009  To really have it by default  you can write a script which ensure  before launching eclipse  that   workspace   metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings org eclipse ui editors prefs does contain  lineNumberRuler true   with  workspace  being the root directory of your eclipse workspace  Then eclipse will be opened with  quot line numbers shown  by default   quot   Otherwise  you can also type  CTRL 1  and then  quot line quot   which will give you access to the command  quot Show line numbers quot   that will switch to option  quot show line numbers quot  in the text editors part of the option  Or you can just type  quot numb quot  in Windows Preferences to access to the Text Editor part   Picture from  quot How to display line numbers in Eclipse quot  of blog  quot Mkyong com quot

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As simple as that  Ctrl F10  then N  to Show or hide line numbers   Reference   http   www shortcutworld com en win Eclipse html

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On a Mac do this   cmd     or ADT - gt  Preferences    Expand General -  Editors - Text Editors  Check box  Show line numbers

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Window   Preferences   General   Editors   Text Editors   Show line numbers     Edit  I wrote this long ago but as  ArtOfWarfar and  voidstate mentioned you can now simply   Right click the gutter and select  Show Line Numbers

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this will be the appropriate solution for asked question   String lineNumbers   AbstractDecoratedTextEditorPreferenceConstants EDITOR LINE NUMBER RULER  EditorsUI getPreferenceStore   setValue lineNumbers  true

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Slight variation on Mac OSX  Eclipse   Preferences   General   Editors   Text Editors   Show line numbers

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click on window tab and click on preferences    do this and check show line number

[eclipse] How can I show line numbers in Eclipse?

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