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   Grant Taylor to papayogev@gmail.com   
   Re: Looking for text editor with command   
   26 May 19 11:04:09   
   
   From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 5/26/19 4:02 AM, papayogev@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hello,   
      
   Hi,   
      
   > Looking for text editor with command line parameters, like:   
   >   
   >    editor  :20 foo.txt   put the cursor on line number 20.   
   >    editor  :*  foo.txt   put the cursor on the last line of the file.   
      
   Check out vim.  I'm fairly certain that you could do both of those.   
      
       vim foo.txt +20   
       vim foo.txt +$   
      
   > I think it will useful for editing of the "tail" of the file.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
      
      
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