bug#59388: Open emacsclient file at last line

[Jim Porter]

On 11/20/2022 11:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:49:10 -0800
> > Cc: gregory@heytings.org, xerusx@pm.me, 59388@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> >
> > > Then I think I'm okay with adding --funcall to emacsclient, as a solution
> > > for this feature request.  With the proviso that the named function will be
> > > called _after_ visiting the named FILE, right?
> >
> > Assuming it's possible, I think the most flexible, obvious, and
> > consistent[1] way for it to work would be to obey the order of the
> > arguments. So "emacsclient --funcall func file.txt" calls func and then
> > visits file.txt, whereas "emacsclient file.txt --funcall func" visits
> > file.txt and then calls func.
>
> This won't work, because emacsclient thinks everything after the first FILE
> cannot be an option.  Which is why +LINE:COLUMN FILE works, although LINE
> and COLUMN refer to FILE that comes after it.

Ok, then I think your proposal is fine.

(Though these surprising differences between how "emacs" and 
"emacsclient" handle arguments are making me wonder about reimplementing 
the client, perhaps as "emacs-client" with a hyphen. Maybe it's worth an 
experiment at least. That obviously doesn't have to happen as part of 
this bug though.)