Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
* Package name : e-wrapper Version : uhm... hard question Upstream Author : yours truly * URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/e * License : hard question again Programming Lang: Perl Description : wrapper to handle "$EDITOR file:lineno" All or almost all Unix editors support the syntax of "editor +42 file", to open the given file and start with the cursor at line 42. Alas, the syntax programs that output such data use is different: either "file:42: Something" or "file:42:1: Something", :1 being a column number. . This wrapper will recognize such references and call your $EDITOR using the + notation. Thus, once you see an error message, you can copy&paste the first word of it without having to manually adjust. Especially if your mouse selection is configured to allow ':', it's a single triple-click (L+L+M), and still pretty handy if not. . If your editor allows multi-open, "e" can also handle pipelines such as: * git grep MEOW|e -: * make 2>&1 >/dev/null|grep error:|e -:: . Also, because of its short name, it reduces the typing needed to start the editor by half if you use vi, by 80% if emacs or jstar -- and that's by far the most frequent command an Unix user does. Such a wrapper is small enough that it might be better to avoid wasting a separate package just for it -- but then, /usr/bin/e is a namespace grab that some might object to, thus they might want to not have this package installed.