Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!eda!jim
From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: less v97 edit +linenumber
Message-ID: <236@eda.com>
Date: 9 Oct 88 20:13:31 GMT
References: <159@libove.UUCP> <9755@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jim@.eda.com (Jim Budler)
Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Lines: 42

In article <9755@cup.portal.com> DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes:
||Less v73 would only give to +linenumber argument to the editor if the
||editor was vi or ex, but v97 gives it anyway, and in the case of (the
||admittedly brain damaged) microemacs (v3.9e) the command "emacs +l f"
||edits two files, +l and f, and only starts the display screen with +l
||open.
||
||Does anyone have a fix for this? (or know what file I should hack
||through?) Thanks-
||
|The simple fix is to build a shell script front end to emacs that converts
|the '+1' argument into a '-g1' argument and then execs the real emacs.  It
|slows it down a little, but not that much.  Benefit is that you get less
|interfaced to emacs just like it would be to vi.

|David Masterson
|DMasterson@cup.portal.com

I did this in a very fast quick and dirty way, and I am sure I will
be told many, many things which are wrong about the following script,
but it fixes the problem.
--------------------- <cut here> -----------------------
: This is a shar archive.  Extract with sh, not csh.
: The rest of this file will extract:
: em
echo extracting - em
sed 's/^X//' > em << '!EOR!'
X#! /bin/sh
Xif [ $# -gt 1 ];then
Xgoto=$1
Xcase "$1" in
X	+*) goto=`echo "$1" | sed s/+/-g/` ;;
Xesac
Xexec /usr/local/bin/em.exe $goto $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
Xelse
Xexec /usr/local/bin/em.exe $1
Xfi
!EOR!
exit
-- 
uucp:     {decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim        Jim Budler
internet: jim@eda.com                   EDA Systems, Inc.