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Subject:    Re: 'commandline' vs ':e' for jump to line (FEAT. REQ)
From:       Dominic Evans <oldmanuk () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-09-28 13:19:58
Message-ID: 2ca5c65a0509280619122afdfd () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ah ok. As long as theres a reason for it im happy. I'll just have to
retrain myself :)

Cheers Bram,
Dom


On 28/09/05, Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
> Dominic Evans wrote:
>
> > I find it most convenient to jump to a line number after specifying
> > the filename e.g.
> >     vim main.c +22
> >
> > rather than doing vim +22 main.c
> >
> > The vim commandline seems to allow this to be done in either form.
> > However ':e' requires that you have the line number jump first, i.e.
> > ':e +22 main.c' and doesn't understand having +22 afterwards (':e
> > main.c +22').
> >
> > Is it a big change to allow vim to do this?
>
> The main difference is that on the command line spaces are used to
> separate arguments.  Thus "main.c +22" is always two arguments.  For the
> ":edit" command the whole line can be the argument.  The advantage is
> that you don't have to put a backslash before a space on MS-Windows, the
> disadvantage is that "main.c +22" is a valid file name, even though it's
> an unusual one.
>
> I don't think making an incompatible change is justified.  Just type the
> +22 before the file name.
>
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