Re: [PATCH] add emacsclient support to open with file:linum syntax

[Jorge Alberto Garcia <jorge.garcia.gonzalez@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Jorge Alberto Garcia
>> We could extend the meaning of  '+' to indicate a linenum:column will
>> be present,
>> So we could use one of these syntax:
>>
>> (new)      emacsclient  +  filepath:LINENUM:COL
>> (current) emacsclient  +LINENUM:COL filepath
>
> Or, you could solve your specific use case with a wrapper script and
> keep emacsclient’s CLI simple and unambiguous and avoid the need to
> invent more syntax.
>
> The script could look like this (which is not sophisticated enough to
> handle :DIGITS in options and may especially interfere with the
> --display option, but will get you a long way):
>
> ```
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import itertools
> import re
> import sys
> import subprocess
>
> RE_LINE_COL = re.compile(r'^(.*?)((?::[0-9]+){,2})$')
>
> sys.exit(subprocess.call(itertools.chain(
>     ['emacsclient'],
>     *[['+%s' % line_col[1:], filename] if line_col else [filename]
>        for arg in sys.argv[1:]
>        for filename, line_col in RE_LINE_COL.findall(arg)]))
> ```

I actually like this approach, I wrote and similar wrapper some time
ago tho this one
is more sophisticate


I guess this was my reason of why I wrote this patch, this way people
don't need to write scripts for something
like that, that as you mention can be more complex due to the digits handling.