Re: Hi all

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> Sergio Dominguez <sergio@skynet.ie> writes:
>
>  
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> > I have a first question to the list :) I would like emacs to start
> > directly in line number 8, but I really don't manage to do it, and
> > I"ve googled intensenly for it. Can someone give me a hint?
> >    
>
> The Emacs developers have written a manual.  And they even have
> written a man page.
>
> (info "(emacs) Emacs Invocation")
>  
There might be different opinions on that. I do not think it covers what 
most users would want in a good way. You can indeed use the information 
that is there to start Emacs and go to a specific line in a specific 
file. The problem is that the way Emacs is started then might not be the 
way you want it to start.

What is the problem you might wonder then? It is that doing it that way 
you invoke a new copy of Emacs. If you have already started Emacs before 
and even if you are already editing that specific file the newly invoked 
Emacs does not have a direct connection to the already running Emacs.  
This mean that the to copies of Emacs does not know exactly what the 
other copy is doing to that file.

You can avoid this trouble but. The solution is to run Emacs as an 
editing server. Emacsclient/server is for that. Take a look at these and 
the command line parameters for the clients. There you can find a 
solution to your problem. (Currently Emacsclient/server is not available 
on MS Windows where you instead use Gnuserv/client for the same purpose. 
For installing this on MS Windows I suggest you take a look at EmacsW32 
on http://www.emacswiki.org/.)

The solution will however be a little bit more complex. You will have to 
use the argument for evaluation of code. A simple solution will be to 
use the two functions find-file and goto-line.