How to make linenumber referencing in lstlisting work with autoref

Question

This Link provides an answer to the question how to make line-number referencing work with lstlisting. However, if I use \autoref it will only return the number and not something like Line 31.

Answer 1

The \autoref command can't 'know' the ref name for each counter, this has to be provided as a separate macro:

I used the listings example by Marco Daniel provided in the Link by the O.P. and found that listings uses lstnumber as counter, so

\newcommand{\lstnumberautorefname}{Line}

is the relevant macro name to be defined (i.e. counter name + autorefname as suffix.

'Only' the standard counters such as chapter, etc, figure, page, table etc. are predefined. For a full list see the hyperref manual. Other packages might define additional \...autorefname macros.

Please have a look on the cleveref package too.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\newcommand{\lstnumberautorefname}{Line}

\begin{document}




\lstset{escapeinside={(*@}{@*)}}
\begin{lstlisting}
 for i:=maxint to 0 do begin
   { comment }(*@\label{comment}@*) 
 end;
\end{lstlisting}
\autoref{comment} shows a comment.


\end{document}