On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote:
>>> vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning.
> ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start
> of the body text. :-)
These command-line text editors have +n option to choose the starting
line number, like this:
emacsclient +12 file.txt
vim +12 file.txt
nano +12 file.txt