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Re: [PATCH] add emacsclient support to open with file:linum syntax


From: Jorge Alberto Garcia
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add emacsclient support to open with file:linum syntax
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 08:13:58 -0600

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:42:04 +0600
>> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Jorge Alberto Garcia
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > With this you can do this from cmdline:
>> > $ emacsclient -q  -c lib-src/emacsclient.c:1593
>>
>> What if you want to edit a file whose name is literally “emacsclient.c:1593”?
>>
>> What if a Windows user wants to edit an NTFS stream named 1593 in file
>> emacsclient.c?
>
> Exactly the questions that went through my head when I read the patch,
> thanks.
>
> I think such a feature, if deemed useful, should be activated by a new
> command-line option.  Otherwise, I don't see how can emacsclient be
> sure the bunch of digits at the end of a file name is a line number.

Hey Eli, thanks for your feedback,
would you be against using a new env var to enable it ?



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