Re: [PATCH] add emacsclient support to open with file:linum syntax

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Yuri Khan <address@hidden>,
>         Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> From: David Caldwell <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:19:26 -0800
> 
> Why not instead of adding the new option, rearrange the logic so that it
> only tries to parse the ":linenum" part if the file doesn't exist?

Because both 'filename' and 'filename:1234' could exist.

Really, I don't understand why should we come with fancy syntax when a
new option will unequivocally tell which case is it.

Learning a new option is not harder than learning a new syntax that
wasn't supported before.