Kakoune: Jump directly to file position

[pickfire]

Feature

kak src/lib.rs:15:10
:e src/lib.rs:15:10

Jump directly to file on line and column specified.

Usecase

$ cargo check
    Checking ascii v0.1.0 (/home/ivan/ascii)
error: expected one of `!`, `.`, `::`, `;`, `?`, `{`, `}`, or an operator, found `USIZE_SIZE`
  --> src/lib.rs:15:10
   |
15 |     onst USIZE_SIZE: usize = mem::size_of::<usize>();
   |          ^^^^^^^^^^ expected one of 8 possible tokens

error: aborting due to previous error

error: could not compile `ascii`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

It would be troublesome to manually copy src/lib.rs from src/lib.rs:15:10, also it would be good to jump to the specified line and column if it's specified. 15 denotes the line and 10 denotes the column.

[Screwtapello]

Most compilers produce GCC-compatible file/line/column/message output, or can be configured to do so, so they work nicely with Kakoune's :make command. rustc doesn't, though, so you may be interested in my kakoune-cargo plugin which makes it a lot easier to jump from an error message to the corresponding location in the source file.

[krobelus]

Yeah, {make,cargo}-next-error work wonders here.

I sometimes have file:line:col locations in other buffers, or in the system clipboard.
To deal with those two I use these commands:

define-command goto-file-at-cursor -docstring 'like "gf" but with smart filename:line:column detection" %{
    execute-keys %{<a-a><a-w>s([^:]+)(?::(\d+))?(?::(\d+))?<ret>) }
    edit -existing -- %reg{1} %reg{2} %reg{3}
}

define-command -override edit-location -params 1 -file-completion %{
    evaluate-commands %sh{
        echo "edit -- $1" | sed 's/:/ /g'
    }
}

[pickfire]

Actually, this wasn't meant for rust. I just use rust as an example here because it also produce the same output. For rust, I usually type in the filename because it is short. But I actually meant for angular, it also produce the same output.

[lenormf]

:edit src/lib.rs 15 10

[alexherbo2]

From the command-line

kak <file> +<line>:<column>

From Kakoune

edit <file> <line> <column>

[pickfire]

Why not support <file>:<line>:<column> for both command line and kakoune? Like check for this pattern if it does not match filename.

And how does kak <file> +<line>:<column> apply when multiple files are specified?