Review Request 118987: Export DBus interface for jumping to a specific line in a file

[Max Schwarz]

> On June 30, 2014, 3:22 p.m., Milian Wolff wrote:
> > shell/documentcontroller.h, line 143
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118987/diff/3/?file=285427#file285427line143>
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> >     ah but now that the default column is 0, you don't generate an invalid cursor anymore. Can't you leave it at -1? What will happen, when you open a document at some line but with cursor == -1? Will nothing happen at all?

line=-1 and column = 0 is is still an invalid cursor:
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/ktexteditor/html/cursor_8cpp_source.html#l00047


- Max


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On June 30, 2014, 12:58 p.m., Max Schwarz wrote:
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> (Updated June 30, 2014, 12:58 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop.
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> Repository: kdevplatform
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> Description
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> The currently exported DBus interface does not allow opening files & jumping to locations inside the file. This ability is useful for external tools, which could offer to switch to KDevelop with the cursor right at the problematic line of code.
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> So add optional line and column parameters to the "openDocumentSimple()" method.
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> In the future the kdevelop executable could be extended to support line number selection from the command line using this DBus call.
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> Diffs
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>   shell/documentcontroller.h 485588a 
>   shell/documentcontroller.cpp 1468b16 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118987/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested manually with qdbus and also with a custom log viewer application, which opens KDevelop at the originating line if you click on a log message.
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> Thanks,
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> Max Schwarz
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