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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.