On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:55:18PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 03:40:43PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 08:11:17PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:55:07AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 01:57:30PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > > This relates to my recent posting about trying to use the '-c' command
> > > > > line option.  However it's now a more general problem/question.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Whenever I add a '-c command' (or a '+ command', or a '-g NNN') to the
> > > > > command line vile opens two windows, the file I want is in the first
> > > > > window and the following is in the second (lower) window:-
> > > > > 
> > > > >     [Reading /home/chris/.vilerc]
> > > > 
> > > > perhaps your .vilerc doesn't set nopopup-msgs (or sets popup-msgs)
> > > > 
> > > My .vilerc is:-
> > > 
> > > 
> > ...
> > >     source digraphs.rc
> > > 
> > > But it's happenning before reading .vilerc isn't it?
> > 
> > no - it's happening because of the warning message:
> > 
> >  * If no warning messages were encountered during startup, and the 
> > popup-msgs
> >  * mode wasn't enabled, discard the informational messages that are there
> >  * already.
> > 
> > you could do this
> > 
> >     vile -c goto-end-of-file
> > 
> Ah!  Thank you, that does what I need.
> 
> However I'm still a little confused, when you say "it's happening
> because of the warning message", am I getting a warning message?  If
> so, what is it? ... and can I stop it?

The error message was this -

    "/home/chris/wiki/data/pages/boating/diary/2011/05/20.txt"]                 
    [Not that many lines in buffer: 20] 
> 
> Are you saying that "source digraphs.rc" is causing it?

no :-
 
> ... I've had a boozy supper just now on my birthday today so apologies
> for confused/confusing replies. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 

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