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I can't believe I didn't know about this until today! When you're viewing a file in a repo on GitHub.com you can press l (lowercase L) and it will show a dialog to jump to a specific line.

Demo:

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(please, ignore the code, it's ancient)

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Useful GitHub.com trick I learned today: l

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