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