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From: news@investor.UUCP ( Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: less v97 edit +linenumber
Message-ID: <1023@investor.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 23:36:13 GMT
References: <159@libove.UUCP> <31@lucifer.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbp@invest.UUCP (Bob Peirce #74)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <31@lucifer.UUCP> steve@lucifer.UUCP (Steve Goodwin) writes:
>In article <159@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>>
>>The recently posted less version 97 differs from its predecessor (I have
>>version 73) in the way it handles the "v" (edit file) command.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>...............
>
>I had a similar problem, you need to patch command.c in the
>vicinity of line 715.
>Put in a bit of code to check whether EDITOR is vi or ex (or
>whatever) and select the relevant editor-calling routine.

Actually, the better thing to do is to modify uEmacs to use +line.
I haven't installed 3.9e yet, but my older version of 3.9 has been
modified to work with many programs that try to start up at a line
number.  I can't get to the source to check what I did right now,
but it was in main where you are checking the command line.

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