# text editor to find lines?

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 29, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968 "2006-06-29T09:54:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968/1 "2006-06-29T09:54:25Z")

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looking for a text editor that can find lines (aka, find line 3028 in a text document). notepad and word dont seem to have it.

anyone know of one?

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### Author: ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2006, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968/2 "2006-06-29T10:37:43Z")

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vim… have fun

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### Author: ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968/3 "2006-06-29T10:39:07Z")

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nano/vi

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### Author: ![PumiceT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@PumiceT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PumiceT)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/text-editor-to-find-lines/13968/4 "2006-06-29T12:49:30Z")

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Notepad:  
 _F_ormat - TURN OFF WORD WRAP  
_E_dit… _G_o To… (or CTRL+G)

🙂

EDIT: PS - post here to let me know if that works for you. I hate replying to something only to have it never updated with a “thanks.”