open file at the end from command line

open file at the end from command line

[Harry Putnam]

I cannot believe that after 10 minutes with google, I haven't found
the answer to my subject line.

  How to: open a file at the end from the command line

I thought I remembered something similar to vim where you could open a
file at the end using '+'

Of course there is `emacs +N file'  (with whatever number=N).  And
even find grained enough to bring the cursor to a specific column.

  emacs +N:N file

But is there not a way to open a file at the end? 

Re: open file at the end from command line

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.12.2013 um 00:18 schrieb Harry Putnam:

> But is there not a way to open a file at the end? 

Tail.

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  Pete

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Re: open file at the end from command line

[Emanuel Berg]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 02.12.2013 um 00:18 schrieb Harry Putnam:
>
>> But is there not a way to open a file at the end? 
>
> Tail.

How about:

emacs +`cat file.txt | wc -l` file.txt

or

emacs file.txt --funcall end-of-buffer

But I prefer having Emacs run all the time. Open files
*from* Emacs, not *with* Emacs.

PS. I couldn't send this because of a "bad word"! Let's
see if this works. DS.

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RE: open file at the end from command line

[Drew Adams]

> I thought I remembered something similar to vim where you could open a
> file at the end using '+'
> 
> Of course there is `emacs +N file'  (with whatever number=N).  And
> even find grained enough to bring the cursor to a specific column.
>   emacs +N:N file
> But is there not a way to open a file at the end?

The same question was recently answered on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20262652/how-to-start-emacs-with-cursor-at-the-end-of-a-given-file

Re: open file at the end from command line

[Harry Putnam]

First to other posters... thanks for some pretty inventive ideas

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I thought I remembered something similar to vim where you could open a
>> file at the end using '+'
>> 
>> Of course there is `emacs +N file'  (with whatever number=N).  And
>> even find grained enough to bring the cursor to a specific column.
>>   emacs +N:N file
>> But is there not a way to open a file at the end?
>
> The same question was recently answered on Stack Overflow:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20262652/how-to-start-emacs-with-cursor-at-the-end-of-a-given-file

(Leaving one of those here for any searched on this group)
That last one:
emacs filename --eval "(goto-char (point-max))"

That will be just the ticket for me since the place I needed it, was in
an ~/.xbindkeyrc script where it allows me to press a C+S+f on my
linux host keyboard to invoke emacs displaying a specific file that I
only ever want to edit or read at the end.

~/.xbindkeysrc syntax looks like this

    "emacsclient -e '(set-background-color "darkslategray")' -e '(set-foreground-color "cornsilk2")' -e '(set-cursor-color "magenta")' -e '(set-default-font "-dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1")' -s prg -c -e '(find-file "/pub/PERSONAL/.0finAct")'  -e '(goto-char (point-max))'"
    control+shift + f 

And works just dandy.

PS - I wish I liked those gwene groups better, I'd probably like that
emacs group, but unless they've improved quite a lot since a couple
yrs ago... the ones I tried seemed really confusing... not nice and
orderly like the rest of gmane or the regular nntp use-net.