Show line numbers in Compile and Display JS

[dinedal]

The only bad part about Coffee Script is that it reports it's errors as line numbers in the compiled result.

Is there anyway the Compile and Display JS window could show line numbers? (or even paste itself into a new TextMate document) This way it would be easier to see where the error occurred in the compiled JS from a stack trace.

[jashkenas]

If you want to build that functionality, go for it ... but I'm afraid that doing fancy formatting within the results window is a bit out of scope for me to build.

[dinedal]

I made a small change which will create a new file and output the results to there instead of the results window. This allows me to use the gutter on the new file to see the line numbers.

This change needs a little more work, as there is still HTML in the output, but it can be cleaned up. If I make a pull request with this change, would you accept it? I think a new file is fine to dump the output of the build too, but if you don't agree that's fine too.

[jashkenas]

I don't agree. If you want to constantly compile your script into a .js file, use coffee --watch -- that's what it's there for.