No line numbers in Eclipse or Android Studio XML editor

Question

When editing XML files in the editor for Eclipse, line numbers are not displayed.

Use case:

I create a layout with many views, one of these lacks android:layout_width attribute. This causes a runtime error when the binary XML layout resource is inflated. The error log tells me to check like 361 in my XML file.

Thanks to the line number being displayed I can find the offending line and make the change without having to open the file in another editor.

Answer 1

try right clicking the grey bar and selecting show line numbers it works for me so hopefully it will for u too

or change it in the settings

File > Settings > Editor > Appearance then click the "Show line numbers" box.

Answer 2

If you're using Android Studio, you can show the line numbers by going to File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance, then check the "Show line numbers" box.

UPDATE: Android Studio v1.5+

1) Click inside the editor, Command + Shift + A, and type "show line numbers"

2) Select the second option in Preferences and it will take you to the screen that used to exist in General > Appearance

3) Check the "Show Line Numbers" box