Re: emacsclient not working as documented

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4+news@osu.edu>]

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