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All or almost all Unix editors support the syntax of "editor +42 file", to
open the given file and start with the cursor at line 42. Alas, the syntax
programs that *output* such data use is different: either
"file:42: Something" or "file:42:1: Something", :1 being a column number.
This wrapper will recognize such references and call your $EDITOR using the +
notation. Thus, once you see an error message, you can copy&paste the
offending first word of it without having to think. Especially if your
mouse selection is configured to allow ':', it's a single triple-click
(L+L+M), and still pretty handy if not.
If your editor allows multi-open, "e" can also handle pipelines such as:
* `git grep MEOW|e -:`
* `make 2>&1 >/dev/null|grep error:|e -::`
Also, because of its short name, it reduces the typing needed to start the
editor by half if you use vi, by 80% if emacs or jstar — and that's by
far the most frequent command a Unix user does.
v0.2
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Possible regression: to handle file:42 patterns in the middle of a line,
`e -:` and `-::` no longer allows filenames with a space. If this proves
to be an issue, please shout at me.
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