From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Misleading --help text Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:17:04 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183083454 10957 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2007 02:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:17:34 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 29 04:17:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4639-0003ZF-KE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:17:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4638-0005E5-Vf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4637-0005DK-7S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4635-0005AA-4M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4634-00059x-Vy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4634-0004fD-Ij for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I462z-00037l-08 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:17:21 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:17:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16024 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > >> Actually, I think it's misleading to mention visited files: the +LINE >> and +LINE:COLUMN options act within the current buffer whether it is >> visiting a file or not. > > No, they don't. They only have an effect on the next visited file from > the command line. Yes, sorry for the noise. I swear when I tried this yesterday, it left me on the 2nd line of he *Messages* buffer, but now I can't reproduce that behavior: emacs -Q --eval '(switch-to-buffer "*Messages*")' +2 -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA