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 9:54 AM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
> As Yuri said, I just have a wrapper to provide the line number to
> emacsclient appropriately.
>
> Here's my csh alias:
>
> =====
>
> # (P)ercol $SEARCHLOG created by (AG)/ack and open emacs at matched (L)ine
> # below alias helps quickly open one of the files from the list of files
> # that matched the last 'ag'. Awesomeness is that the file opens in emacs
> # at the matched line!
> alias pagl  'cat ${SEARCHLOG} | percol --query=\!* | \\
>       (e2 `awk -F: '"'"'{ if ( $2 ) {print "+" $2 " " $1} else {print}
> }'"'"'` &)'
>
> =====
>

Hi!, I think you got it right and I would like to provide this
awesomeness to all users
like us who will be happy to use it on emacsclient directly.


> (1)
>
> $SEARCHLOG is a temporary file containing the output of ag[1]
>
> Here's a sample $SEARCHLOG file:
>
> setup-misc.el:226:  ("C-t"   toggle-theme)
> setup-htmlize.el:23:      ;; theme, the squiggly underlines can either show
> up in the html file
> setup-fci.el:66:Running this function after changing themes updates the fci
> rule color in
> setup-linum.el:41:background color to that of the theme."
> setup-visual.el:13:;;  Themes
> setup-visual.el:46:(defvar dark-theme t
> setup-visual.el:47:  "Variable to store the nature of theme whether it is
> light or dark.
> setup-visual.el:48:This variable is to be updated when changing themes.")
>
> (2)
>
> percol[2] is a command line utility to allow ido-vertical-like selection
> from terminal
>
> (3)
>
> e2 is my alias for "emacsclient -a '' \!* >& /dev/null"
>
> (4)
>
> That awk snippet is what rearranges the FILE:LINENUM in $SEARCHLOG to
> +LINENUM FILE when providing the arguments to e2.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
> [2]: https://github.com/mooz/percol
>
>