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Hallo Mint forum,

For writing bash-scripts, someone suggested to use Emacs.
I am doing so, but why not just use Notepad?
Another question about Emacs:
When I made a mistake, the bash shell says in which line the fault is.
Is it possible in Emacs to show line numbers?

Kind regards,

Emacs can do so much more than notepad....

It does show the line number at the bottom by default (at least I think it is by default). If you add this to ~/.emacs, you can hit CTRL-L to go to a specific line (it will prompt for the number:

You may also want to try out VIM, may be considered less complicated (not as many key control codes to consider), or some of the more GUI-based(or programmer style) editors for Gnome..
http://www.geany.org/
http://linux.wikia.com/wiki/Vim
http://archive09.linux.com/feature/114359
---it can be made into a bash ide
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html

For the terminal, a simple text editor such as nano, most are similar to msdos style command line editors; in having a menu bar at the top as well as various keyboard shortcuts or menu selections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... xt_editors

Hallo Bjornmu,

This is what I found when I opened .emacs (please see below).
Where do I have to put the code or is this not what you meant?

@DrHu thanks for the links.
I will give Emacs a try but when it is to complicated, I will have a look at the other editors.
Once at the "evening-university" I was forced to learn vi and that was one of the reasons for me to quit.
I hope vim is something different.

(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(cua-mode t nil (cua-base)))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
)
.emacs (END)

Just put it before or after that large () block.

I did, and it works out fine.

tnx a lot.