From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sparky1685@yahoo.co.uk (Sparky) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacsclient not working as documented Date: 22 Apr 2004 15:11:18 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082672656 29776 80.91.224.253 (22 Apr 2004 22:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 23 00:24:11 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 1BGmc7-0002wm-00 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:24:11 +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 1BGmVG-0000MS-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:17:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.78.89.69 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1082671878 6987 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2004 22:11:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122600 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:17888 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17888 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. I'm using Mandrake 9.2 and the mandrake emacs packages - emacs version 21.3.1 and emacsclient version 21.3. Any suggestions would be very welcome, as I'd love to get this working as documented. Thanks in advance Mark