Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Utterly painless arch?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:14:53PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:13:42PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> >> I find the use of filenames starting with = (which must be escaped in
> >> bash) and + (which confuses many editors) far more difficult and
> >> annoying.
> >
> > Are there really editors other than elvis and nvi which are confused
> > by filenames starting with a + ?
> 
> Yes.  Emacs, for one.  It may even be a defined convention somewhere
> that `$EDITOR +<n> <file>' ought to go to line <n> of <file> in one's
> favourite editor.

XEmacs at least has no trouble with it. I don't know if GNU Emacs is
broken in this respect.

This opens file "foo" at line 1:
gnuclient +1 foo

This opens file "+1":
gnuclient +1

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