Re: Feature Request: Enabling opening files externally at a particular line number

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 23 March 2013 19:34, Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Aaron Schrab <aaron schrab com> wrote:
> > At 16:17 +0100 21 Mar 2013, Konstantin <starojitski gmail com> wrote:
> > > "$external_editor $file_path:$current_line_number"
> > > would open the file at the right point! At least on Linux and probably on
> > > Mac
> >
> >
> > That would be a feature of the editor, not the OS.  And that method doesn't
> > work for either of the traditionally popular Unix/Linux editors (emacs and
> > vi).  In fact I'd consider any editor that did that to be broken since a
> > colon is a perfectly valid part of a file name.
> >
> > However both of those support:
> >
> > "$external_editor +$current_line_number $file_path"
>
> FWIW in TortoiseHg you can define an external editor. When you do so
> you can define the command line that will be called when the editor is
> open. In it you can use a few "variables", such as $FILE and $LINENUM.
> With that you can customize how the editor is open, and _if_ your
> editor command line contains $LINENUM you TortoiseHg will open the
> file at the selected line number.
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If we did anything to support opening at a given line, I think it
would be something like this. We'd just make a mini-syntax for passing
arguments to the custom editor and document the flags.

cheers,
Kai