On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Um, but \sf *doesn't* give you anything that's usefully copy and
> pasteable. And if that were the goal, why doesn't it have an option to
> write to a file?
>
> But it's really the line numbers shoved in front that I'm on about here.
> I can't see *any* use for that behavior except to figure out what part of
> your function an error message with line number is referring to; and as
> I said upthread, there are better ways to be attacking that problem.
> If you've got a thousand-line function (yes, they're out there) do you
> really want to be scrolling through \sf output to find out what line 714
> is?
Suggestion:
\sf without line numbers
\sf+ with line numbers
Best,
David