veditline

A small CLI editor wrapper, that makes it easy to edit files, mentioned in error messages.

Most text editors do support opening a text file at a specific line, but each editor has a slightly different command line syntax for doing that.

Programming editors like vim and emacs especially, also understand the file:line:column syntax internally, in order to be able to go to compilation errors, but their command line options for specifying the line number are different for seemingly no good reason.

veditline is a small wrapper for other text editors, that intends to standardize on the file:line:column syntax.

Build:

This program is built using the V programming language.

After you have V installed, just do:

git clone https://github.com/spytheman/veditline /opt/veditline
cd /opt/veditline
v .

Setup:

sudo ./veditline --install vjed vemacs vvim

Usage:

vjed file.c:123:

... will start jed, and make it open file.c at line 123.

Similarly vemacs file.v:11: -> it will start emacs, opening file.v at line 11.