From: Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4+news@osu.edu>
Subject: Re: emacsclient not working as documented
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:32:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jw61r60.fsf@osu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e609ea08.0404221411.7979ab81@posting.google.com
sparky1685@yahoo.co.uk (Sparky) writes:
> Hello all,
> I posted this to comp.emacs without any replies, so hoping someone
> here will be able to shed some light:
>
> I've been trying to get emacsclient to jump to a particular line and
> column of a text file (for use with the Lilypond music typesetting
> program) but I can only make it jump to the beginning of a line.
> The info page for invoking emacsclient says:
>
> To run the `emacsclient' program, specify file names as arguments,
> and optionally line numbers as well. Do it like this:
>
> emacsclient {[+LINE[COLUMN]] FILENAME}...
>
> but when I enter:
>
> emacsclient --no-wait +38:42 music.ly
>
> the cursor appears at line 38, column 1, rather than column 42.
Just so you know, the +line:col works fine for me in emacs CVS. You
might try building from CVS, it's usually quite stable, and you can
always check out a slightly older version from CVS if it's not.
--
Benjamin Rutt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-22 22:11 emacsclient not working as documented Sparky
2004-04-23 18:32 ` Benjamin Rutt [this message]
2004-04-23 22:10 ` Sparky
2004-04-24 3:03 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-04-26 12:37 ` Sparky
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