FW: Minor doc bug

[Derose, Steve (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

The man page for emacs doesn't mention that the +n option (to start up at a certain line of a file) apparently only applies to the very next file listed.

 

For example, if I say

 

   emacs +10 foo bar

 

the cursor shows up in bar, at line 1 not 10. But if I say

 

   emacs +10 foo +10 bar

 

then the cursor does show up at line 10 of file bar. Seems like the right behavior, but it seems to me the man page should mention this under +n.  

 

Also, the man (at least the version here page points to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.

 

This is emacs 21.2.4, btw.

 

Thanks!

 

Steve DeRose (contractor)

National Center for Biotechnology Information

deroses@mail.nih.gov