Where do I find the line number in the Xcode editor?

Question

In Xcode 3, the line number of the current cursor location was displayed. I don't see this in Xcode 4. Is there a setting that will turn it on? Or a keypress that will give it to me?

Nutter

Please file bugs at bugreport.apple.com and reference radar://9245044 (for showing cursor line & column) or radar://13255659 (to show line numbers by default). – Cockeye

Answer 1

For Xcode 4 and higher, open the preferences (command+,) and check "Show: Line numbers" in the "Text Editing" section.

Xcode 9

Xcode 8 and below

Lenten

A image is worth a 1000 words! (it´s still the same for xcode 6.. ) – Cosetta

Answer 2

In Preferences->Text Editing-> Show: Line numbers you can enable the line numbers on the left hand side of the file.

Holeandcorner

Thanks, I will use that at least some of the time. But what I really want is to just display the number of the line I am on. – Nutter

@William Jockusch I don't think they kept it in XCode4, I've been looking nor for quite a while but to no avail. – Lenten

Answer 3

Sure, Xcode->Preferences and turn on Show line numbers.

Gemmiparous

Preferences->Text Editing-> Show: Line numbers – Estas

Answer 4

1. Go to Xcode preferences by clicking on "Xcode" in the left hand side upper corner.

2. Select "Text Editing".

3. Select "Show: Line numbers" and click on check box for enable it.

4. Close it.

Then you will see the line number in Xcode.

Overskirt

Answer 5

If you don't want line numbers shown all the time another way to find the line number of a piece of code is to just click in the left-most margin and create a breakpoint (a small blue arrow appears) then go to the breakpoint navigator (⌘7) where it will list the breakpoint with its line number. You can delete the breakpoint by right clicking on it.

Extrajudicial

Answer 6

To save $4.99 for a one time use and no dealing with HomeBrew and no counting empty lines.

1. Open Terminal
2. cd to your Xcode project
3. Execute the following when inside your target project:

find . -name "*.swift" -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

If you want to exclude pods:

find . -path ./Pods -prune -o -name "*.swift" -print0 ! -name "/Pods" | xargs -0 wc -l

If your project has objective c and swift:

find . -type d \( -path ./Pods -o -path ./Vendor \) -prune -o \( -iname \*.m -o -iname \*.mm -o -iname \*.h -o -iname \*.swift \) -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

Cerium