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

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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?

Please file bugs at http://bugreport.apple.com and reference radar://9245044 (for showing cursor line & column) or radar://13255659 (to show line numbers by default). — Quinn Taylor, Oct 19 '15 at 22:12

score 991 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 23 '20 at 15:33

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

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Xcode 8 and below Xcode Text Editing Preferences screen capture with Text Editing and Line Numbers highlighted

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A image is worth a 1000 words! (it´s still the same for xcode 6.. ) – Benjamin Jul 30 '15 at 15:33

score 42 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '11 at 17:25

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

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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. – William Jockusch May 05 '11 at 17:27
@William Jockusch I don't think they kept it in XCode4, I've been looking nor for quite a while but to no avail. – Nick Weaver May 05 '11 at 17:49

score 19 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 23 '20 at 15:33

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

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`Preferences->Text Editing-> Show: Line numbers` – Hemang Aug 14 '13 at 10:18

score 6 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 23 '20 at 15:35

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Go to Xcode preferences by clicking on "Xcode" in the left hand side upper corner.
Select "Text Editing".
Select "Show: Line numbers" and click on check box for enable it.
Close it.

Then you will see the line number in Xcode.

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 30 '18 at 10:10

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.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 17 '19 at 03:28

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Open Terminal
cd to your Xcode project
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

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

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