On 1/8/16 8:54 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
>> Eli,  do you think this would be acceptable ?
> 
> Actually, after I replied, it made me think..
> 
> Instead of a mysterious lonely "+" argument, would it make more sense to
> a descriptive argument like "--files-with-linenum-colnum"?
> 
> Eli and the emacs-dev list, feel free to suggest if this is a good idea
> or if a different argument name is more appropriate.

Why not instead of adding the new option, rearrange the logic so that it
only tries to parse the ":linenum" part if the file doesn't exist?

ie:
emacsclient somefile:1234

tries to open "somefile:1234", then if it fails, looks for the :1234 and
tries to open "somefile" and jump to line 1234. That shouldn't surprise
anyone with weirdly named files and you don't need to learn any new
command line options.

-David