Re: Activating gVim from the command line (cont)

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:16:55 PM UTC-5, His Nerdship wrote:
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> gvim --servername HgVim --remote-silent "+51;/blobfish/;:call
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> search('blobfish','c')" fish.cpp
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> However it adds a new twist, albeit a trivial one. I have to
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> decrement 1 from the line number. In the above example, if 'blobfish'
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> is on line 52 and I specify +52 in the command, it will actually start
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> even if the search expression is on line 1 (just specify '+0').
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> If you know of a way round this it would be good but as I said, it's
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> Really appreciate the help you give to me and everyone else.

I think the problem is you're using +52 as a range, meaning "52 lines after the current line". Since when you load a file Vim starts at line 1, this means line 53.

Try using "52" instead of "+52", although I'm not quite sure why what you're doing works, because it looks to me at first glance like Vim should try to edit a file with a name equal to the command you gave rather than executing the command. I guess I need to read through the help on the --remote family again.

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