Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prik...@gmail.com> skribis: > Am Donnerstag, dem 02.11.2023 um 10:43 +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: >> Hi, >> >> The command “guix edit” returns “+N path/to/file” that is then passed >> to $EDITOR. Therefore $EDITOR needs the command line: >> >> $ $EDITOR +N /path/to/file >> >> Well, that is accepted by many $EDITOR, to my knowledge. At least, >> Emacs, Vi or less are fine with it. > This appears to be a somewhat archaic convention.
“Archaic” is one way to describe it; I’d have said “standard”. :-) (Implemented by Vi(m), Emacs, Nano, less, more, etc.) >> However, some other $EDITOR does not. I have in mind “kate” or >> “VSCode“, >> >> $ kate -l N path/to/file >> $ code --goto path/to/file:N It’d be nice to support these as well. However, how do we know we’re dealing with kate or VSCode? By checking the basename of $EDITOR? Kinda ugly and brittle, but probably better than nothing. Thanks, Ludo’.
