On 23 March 2013 19:34, Angel Ezquerra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Aaron Schrab <[email protected]> wrote: >> At 16:17 +0100 21 Mar 2013, Konstantin <[email protected]> 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. <snip>
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 _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
