Thanks, Tim. This was, in fact, *exactly* what I was looking for.

Much appreciated,

Trevor.


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/23/12 06:45, Trevor Bača wrote:
>
>> How can I open a file and have the cursor automatically
>> positioned at  column number n?
>>
>> Something like ...
>>
>>    vim +024l foo.txt
>>
>> ... but where "024l" would be interpreted as a normal command
>> instead of an ex command.
>>
>
> You can use the "-c" command combined with the "norm" ex command to do
> things like
>
>  vim +42 -c'norm 15|' file.txt
>
> which will go to column 15 on line 42
>
> -tim
>



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