Re: How to specific the line to go to from the command line?

Sven Guckes <guckes@guckes.net> wrote:
> * Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> [2021-03-24 01:51]:
>> I want to specify the line number to go to at the command line.
>> Could anybody let me know how to do it with vim? Thanks.
>
> how to go to line #23:
>
> jump to line 23 on startup:
> vim +23 filename

That's a good answer. The more modern version is to use -c like this:

vim -c :23 filename

Up to ten -c commands can be given, each with an ex mode command. Note
it may need quotes from the shell:

vim -c ':normal 23G' filename

I have a script that I use where I consider the filename to be sensitive
and I don't want it to appear in `ps` output. To invoke vim to edit that
file from script I use a temporary tags file. One could (but probably
would find it too cumbersome) use a method like that to go to line 23.

Here's the bit of sh script I use:

case "$mode" in
# ...
edit) tmp=tags
printf "main\t%s\t1\n" "$name" > $tmp
vim -t main
rc=$?
rm $tmp
exit $rc
;;
# ...
esac

In the 'tags' file I create, the three columns are tagname, filename,
and line number. (In typical 'tags' files the third column is a search
pattern, not a line number. Typically they also have multiple lines with
separate entries.) I then invoke vim with the tag name.

I bring it up in case this isn't going to be cumbersome and might be
something that helps your use case:

vim -c ':set tags=/some/shared/tags/file' -t tagname

Elijah

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