Line Numbers in Eclipse

Posted by Jamsi in Java on October 18th, 2008 | 59 responses

It’s 4am in the morning. You’ve been coding in Java for the past 6 hours and realise something’s missing from your Eclipse editor .. something that can confirm that the last 6 hours weren’t a WASTE of time..

and that is line numbers.

To turn on line numbering in Eclipse, simply do the following;

1) Windows -> Preferences
2) General – > Editors -> Text Editors

and click the “Show Line Numbers” checkbox.
Whola?

Now was the last 6 hours a waste?



59 Responses to “Line Numbers in Eclipse”

  1. Alan Peters says:
    July 28, 2009 at 6:16 am

    Thank you! my goodness Eclipse can be maddening.

  2. Oliver says:
    November 24, 2009 at 3:15 am

    My generation is soft, I ‘googled’ it before I even went searching. Thanks.

  3. Steve S says:
    February 9, 2010 at 7:19 am

    Eclipse F1 was no help but your blog was. Thanks!

  4. Eclipsed says:
    March 20, 2010 at 2:26 am

    Absolutely miserable UI! Thanks so much for posting this simple tip.

  5. C1 says:
    March 30, 2010 at 12:37 am

    Thanks!

  6. Rapi says:
    April 8, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Thank you so much! Haha. So simple yet magnanimous in nature. :D

  7. Harvey Ramer says:
    April 29, 2010 at 2:51 am

    Great little tip. Thanks!

  8. Ankur Chandra says:
    April 29, 2010 at 11:39 pm

    Thanks dude.. Great tip..
    I use net beans and always thot why the h e l l dus this is dus not have line numbers!!

  9. ravi says:
    September 8, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Hi,

    Thanks so much for assisting showing line numbers.

  10. Jan says:
    September 21, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    HeY! Thanks dude for the info .

  11. imi says:
    September 22, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    Thank You for giving this tip…it helps a lot while coding

  12. shya says:
    September 24, 2010 at 12:59 am

    thks mone..

  13. eclips novice says:
    September 27, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks, also googled before I started searching, thanks, saved me a lot of time

  14. kevin says:
    October 6, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    thanks mate

  15. Lakshman kumar says:
    October 7, 2010 at 12:51 am

    Thanks giving the answer for eclipse line numbers

  16. Eric says:
    October 11, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    No. The last 8 hours were not a waste. 470 lines of client and server code =)

  17. Vivek says:
    October 19, 2010 at 6:04 am

    :D ..I was in the same scenario!! Cheers!

  18. sunil says:
    October 29, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    thank you

  19. raghav says:
    November 1, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    Thanks alot.
    God Bless u..

  20. bo says:
    November 5, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    damn im dizzy about it, thanks man

  21. Cris says:
    November 11, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    Thanks man. Your a great help.

  22. Mahendra says:
    November 18, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Hey, thank you for the simple yet useful tip..

  23. farrafar says:
    December 11, 2010 at 1:50 am

    thanks for this little tip. You posted it more than 2 years ago, and it’s still quite useful for some of us

  24. anil kumar khichar says:
    December 20, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    thnks to all. i m switching from visual studio to eclipse so i really needs line numbers as per my habit……thanks again.

  25. Dr.Shadow says:
    December 22, 2010 at 4:05 am

    Nice one man! Spend about 5 minutes trying to find it in IDE. And then googled it =) Cheers

  26. Nila says:
    January 9, 2011 at 1:21 am

    Cheers Jamsi, saved lots of time :)

  27. Big Eclipse says:
    January 15, 2011 at 8:58 am

    Great tip. Thanks.

  28. Outsopken says:
    January 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    Thanks!

    Actually went to that dialog, but never noticed the check box.

    Talk about not seeing the obvious!

  29. Paul Moffett says:
    January 24, 2011 at 7:10 am

    thanks! I also googled it before trying to work it out! awesome!

  30. BryBry says:
    February 19, 2011 at 5:53 am

    SO CLOSE.. I did windows>>preferences>>general>>editors>>text editors and then couldn’t find it..only to realize that i only clicked the collapsible arrows and not the words “text editors”

    -_-

  31. delta says:
    March 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks a lot!!!!

  32. CJ says:
    March 31, 2011 at 7:48 am

    God bless you and thanks for that!:-)

  33. nim says:
    April 5, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    g8 help
    thank you so much:)

  34. rajat says:
    April 12, 2011 at 6:12 am

    thank you

  35. Vineet says:
    April 14, 2011 at 1:55 am

    Thanks …. Dude..

  36. Ashish Wadatkar says:
    April 21, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    Thanks frnd For your help

  37. Nick says:
    May 10, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Thanks! And yes I’ve been looking at java for 6 hours…

  38. Gerard J. Cerchio says:
    May 11, 2011 at 5:10 am

    OR – you may just right click on the left vertical editor window bar and turn them on and off!

  39. Devesh says:
    May 11, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks !!! Great tip !!!

  40. dana says:
    May 13, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    thank you.. small useful tips!!

  41. Jan says:
    May 24, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    Thank you! When you know, where to look, it couldn’t be easier.

  42. John says:
    May 25, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    Small tip yet so helpful…
    Thanks

  43. Rambabu Pudi says:
    May 26, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Thanks dude.

  44. ishu says:
    May 31, 2011 at 5:10 am

    thk u very much

  45. Wally says:
    May 31, 2011 at 10:26 am

    Thanks, man

  46. rafi says:
    June 5, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    why can’t they keep it on by default, it makes no sense to have it off.

  47. riff says:
    June 8, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Thanx a lot man !

  48. James says:
    June 9, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Thanks it very was helpful

  49. roco says:
    June 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Eclipse Helios doesn’t have General in Preferences

  50. player_03 says:
    July 1, 2011 at 10:41 am

    roco: In that case, try Gerard’s suggestion: right-click the bar where the line numbers should be. The option will be in that menu as well.

  51. thomas sabo stockist says:
    July 13, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    thomas sabo stockist

  52. Alan says:
    July 23, 2011 at 12:26 am

    Thank god, it really wasn’t a waste! Thanks for the tip.

  53. adam says:
    July 24, 2011 at 9:17 am

    you can also right click on the left area where you would expect them and it is in that menu

  54. islam says:
    August 19, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    thanks man.

  55. Simone Web Design says:
    August 20, 2011 at 7:49 am

    Thank you!

  56. Omnamah says:
    September 7, 2011 at 12:15 am

    Adam wins. Simplicity always wins.
    Kudos to OP all the same.

  57. amjad mohammad says:
    September 21, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    Thank you very much simple and good

  58. Awk34 says:
    October 14, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    God why do they have to hide line numbers so well? Thank you!

  59. Atul_shukla says:
    November 3, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    Thanx a lot……..Really G8 Tips!! for Eclipse Beginners.

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