Comment 1 by fatma.mehanna on 2011-06-12 21:20
yes, it is a very helpfull feature specially when reading large books.
there are books consist of several parts and they can't be downloaded, so there's no way but reading them on line. We can't of course copy the whole content of these books and paste them in an editor.
thanks

Comment 2 by clev on 2012-06-11 13:01
I suggest two distinct features, Perhaps this should be divided into two tickets: first, a "go to line" dialog, which displays the total number of lines in the document and allows us to jump to the desired place. In future versions, it could keep the jump history for each page or web site.

Another feature is a keystroke, or a setting to enable automatically reporting, to tell how many links, headings, frames, etc., there are in the page. This will give us a better idea how to navigate the page once it is loaded.

Comment 3 by nvdakor on 2014-07-25 13:58
Hi,
I'd say this is blocked by a recent ticket regarding enhancements to reporting of review cursor location in various places, and yes, it's done in upcoming version. Thanks.

Comment 4 by jteh on 2014-07-28 06:24
#4219 reports the percentage of the document before the cursor in browse mode. Are line numbers really needed to satisfy this request? It is very expensive to calculate line numbers for browse mode, which would make this command very slow, particularly in large documents.

Comment 6 by ianr on 2014-07-28 14:26
Sorry, I'd forgotten about this ticket.
I actually use the "percentage checker" addon which tells me number of words but most importantly the percentage.
It works in virtual buffers like Firefox and in multiline textboxes like Notepad++ and Visual Studio 2010.

Line reporting and a go to line or go to percent command could still be useful in virtual buffers, but my major need was fulfilled by the "percentage checker" addon.

I'm not sure about the slowdown for getting line numbers but considering the "percentage checker" addon gets words I expect it is equally as slow, and I never find it slow personally.
It might be worth looking at how the percentage checker addon was implemented.

Comment 7 by ianr on 2014-07-28 14:41
I just realized the percentage checker addon also lets you jump to a percentage if you press it's hot key twice quickly.
I tested and this works in Firefox and Notepad++, it doesn't seem to work right in Visual Studio 2010.
It looks like it's only 105 lines of code, so it shouldn't take too long to see how it was done.

Out of interest, could someone please share the download link of the Percentage Checker add-on being discussed as well as its source code for the benefit of NVDA developers?

When I did a search for the percentage checker addon, I found this. http://oriolgomez.com/files/percentageChecker.nvda-addon
It is not on the official list of addons but I can confirm that it indeed works. There are some other pretty useful addons on this site as well.

I"m tempted to close this as per #1487 (comment) . I agree that in browse mode, line numbers are probably not very useful

Closing now. If this is still an issue, please provide info on what you expect and what's happening instead.