nano

commit 5290a85afd67271af311e565d98fe279f73473a6
parent b5157dd9cb3fefd9261c430d7bce9ac483b1124d
Author: Benjamin Valentin <benpicco@googlemail.com>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:43:00 +0100

new feature: interpret also <filename>:<linenumber> when opening a file

Various tools will output filenames with line numbers in the format
<filename>:<line>:<column>.  Support this format in addition to the
+<line>,<column> format when opening files.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Valentin <benpicco@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>

Diffstat:
M
src/nano.c
 | 
28
++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
M
src/utils.c
 | 
2
+-

2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
@@ -2482,8 +2482,32 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 				continue;
 		} else
 #endif
-		 if (!open_buffer(argv[optind++], TRUE))
-			continue;
+		{
+			char *filename = argv[optind++];
+			char *colon = filename + (*filename ? 1 : 0);
+
+			/* Search for a colon, to open the file on a specific line. */
+			while ((colon = strchr(colon, ':'))) {
+
+				/* If the colon is escaped, unescape it and skip it. */
+				if (*(colon - 1) == '\\') {
+					memmove(colon - 1, colon, strlen(colon) + 1);
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				/* If parsing succeeds, cut off the line suffix. */
+				if (parse_line_column(colon + 1, &givenline, &givencol)) {
+					*colon = 0;
+					break;
+				}
+
+				/* Parsing failed; skip this colon. */
+				++colon;
+			}
+
+			if (!open_buffer(filename, TRUE))
+				continue;
+		}
 
 		/* If a position was given on the command line, go there. */
 		if (givenline != 0 || givencol != 0)
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ bool parse_line_column(const char *str, ssize_t *line, ssize_t *column)
 	while (*str == ' ')
 		str++;
 
-	comma = strpbrk(str, "m,. /;");
+	comma = strpbrk(str, "m,. /;:");
 
 	if (comma == NULL)
 		return parse_num(str, line);