It’s always interesting to see the design / default setting considerations made in software.

One that has always stuck out to me is I can’t figure out for the life of me why most IDE’s don’t enable line numbers by default.  No matter what we write, sooner or later we have to refer to the line number.

Luckily for Adobe’s ColdFusion Builder, which is based on Eclipse, the setting is a few simple clicks.

1. Go into preferences
2. Click on General in the left menu bar
3. Click Editors
4. Click on Text Editors
5. You will see the fourth checkbox says “Show line number”.  Click this on to enable it, and then click OK.

Below is a handy screenshot to know exactly where to click.  Enjoy!

Enabling Line Numbers to be visible in Adobe ColdFusion Builder