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bug #57342: [Request] mention that the command line allows negative numbers after +

Submitter:  Andreas Schamanek <aschamanek>
Submitted:  Mon 02 Dec 2019 09:18:43 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

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Tue 24 Dec 2019 09:12:14 AM UTC, comment #6: 

Released in 4.7.

 Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Dec 2019 04:14:12 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Thanks for confirmimg.  Patch has been applied and pushed: commit 076eb6f6 -- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=076eb6f6 .

 Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Dec 2019 03:30:13 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Great! I think that's a worthwhile addition. Thanks a lot!

 Andreas Schamanek <aschamanek>
Mon 02 Dec 2019 10:27:49 AM UTC, comment #3: 

How about the attached patch?

(file #47965)

 Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Dec 2019 10:03:48 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Ooops, sorry for the noise. I did read the current manpage, and I even tried +-line, but I tried it with an older nano.

So, maybe the support of negative numbers could be mentioned in the manpage?

Andreas Schamanek <aschamanek>
Mon 02 Dec 2019 09:49:52 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Nano already supports negative line numbers on the command line (since version 2.8.5):

  nano  +-1  filename

to start at the bottom of the file.  (The "+-" may be a bit unintuitive, but it works fine.)

 Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Mon 02 Dec 2019 09:18:43 AM UTC, original submission:  

I find myself quite regularly editing files where I need to edit the last line or add a line at the end of the buffer/file. Nano offers keyboard shortcuts to jump to the end, but I was wondering whether it might be possible to support negative numbers on the command line like it is already the case for the "Go To Line" command (cf. bug #48248).

What I currently use to edit the last line is

nano +$(wc -l $file)


To add a line at the end

nano +$(($(wc -l <$file)+1)) $file


 Andreas Schamanek <aschamanek>

 

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Attached Files
file #47965:  mention-negative-numbers.patch added by bens (1KiB - text/x-patch)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2019-12-24 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2019-12-02 bens Assigned toNone bens
    2019-12-02 bens Severity1 - Wish 2 - Minor
        StatusIn progress Fixed
    2019-12-02 bens Attached File- Added mention-negative-numbers.patch, #47965
        StatusWorks for me In progress
        Summary[Request] Negative numbers in CLI's +line arg (e.g. to jump to last line) [Request] mention that the command line allows negative numbers after +
    2019-12-02 bens Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        StatusNone Works for me

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