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Aman Jain
Aman Jain

Reputation: 11317

vim edit mode - How to open a file and go to a line number

In edit mode, how do I specify vim to go to a specific line(say 67)? The following command treats line number as file name.

:e /tmp/foo 67

I know how to do this when starting vim, but that's incovenient when you're already inside an editing session with other files.

vim /tmp/foo +67

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1188

Answers (2)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196516

While perfectly correct and canonical (see :help +cmd), OP's solution of putting the line number before the file name never felt right to me because it doesn't map with how I think: directory > file > line.

Therefore, I prefer to do:

:e /tmp/foo|67

which lets me deal with the file first, then with the line, which is much more intuitive to me.

Note that both :e +67 /tmp/foo and :e /tmp/foo|67 do exactly the same thing under the hood:

:e /tmp/foo
:67

Upvotes: 8

Aman Jain
Aman Jain

Reputation: 11317

Thanks to @larsks and @romainl for the answers!

:e +67 /tmp/foo
OR
:e /tmp/foo|67

Upvotes: 4

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