Several tools such as grep, py.test, etc ... use the pattern <FileName>:<line number>: to point to errors. For example:
; grep -Hn Common setup.cfg
setup.cfg:11: Common
How can I modify vim and gvim so that I can invoke them like so:
gvim setup.cfg:11:
instead of
gvim setup.cfg +11
I know that I can write a small shell script that would parse things but I wonder if there is an easier way.
You can use the file:line plugin available here, which does exactly what you want...
There isn't a way, and I think a script is the only way. The reason being, what if you had a file called setup.cfg:11 and wanted to edit it?
Here is a quick script that does what you want as a oneliner...
editline() { vim ${1%%:*} +${1##*:}; }
+11? You can, of course, use -- for that.
With Vundle.vim, add this to your .vimrc:
Plugin 'bogado/file-line'
You can also use such alias:
alias gd 'set number=`echo \!:1 | perl -pe "s/([0-9]*:)?(.+)[,:]([0-9]+).*/\3/"`; set file=`echo \!:1 | perl -pe "s/([0-9]*:)?(.+)[,:]([0-9]+).*/\2/"`; eval "if ($number == $file) then \\
gvim $file \\
else \\
gvim $file +$number \\
endif"'
:help quickfixfor more info.gfon a (possibly relative, possibly including line and column number) reference to a file, whether in an embedded terminal or in any kind of buffer.