Ability to open in editor at current cursor position

[asmeurer]

Many editors such as vim and emacs allow you to open a file at a specific line/column. For emacs, you can pass emacs +line:column file. For vim, you can do +line (don't know how to open to a particular column).

It would be awesome if the open in editor command did this, so that it places you where your cursor was.

[jonathanslenders]

Thanks for the feature request.
I think this should be configurable. If $EDITOR is equal to "vi", then we're still not sure which implementation of "vi" is installed. I guess for Emacs, it's similar. Passing arguments which are not understood is worse than not passing the cursor position.

Are you aware of readline doing is?

[asmeurer]

I didn't even know readline had an open in editor feature. I'll look into it.

[jonathanslenders]

Yes, the key bindings are exactly the same.

[asmeurer]

It doesn't look like it supports it. I also see now this is the origin of the annoying "execute after closing the editor" behavior.