From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient not working as documented Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:32:23 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <877jw61r60.fsf@osu.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082747024 18669 80.91.224.253 (23 Apr 2004 19:03:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 23 21:03:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BH5xU-0007BB-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:03:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BH5hy-0005p4-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:47:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dhcp26143213.columbus.rr.COM!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp26143213.columbus.rr.com (24.26.143.213) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1082745144 9948998 I 24.26.143.213 ([70547]) Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hrbB33105j5gWki1Yhhth/vHdDg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122636 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17924 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