Open micro with the file and cursor on the last line

[exebook]

I often need to add few lines to the file at the end, that would be handy to have a cli switch to open a file and automatically scroll down to the end and put cursor at the last character in the file as well. Is this already possible? Can this be a feature otherwise?

[ghost]

Maybe
echo „some line“ >> someFile.txt
Already does the job?

[exebook]

well, yeah for some simple cases it will do, but Micro is an editor, and editin in an editor is a good thing, you can check if the added line aligns with the existing lines, you can add more than one lines, the syntax will be highlighted, tabs and indents will work in a right way, you can copy/paste, etc..

[zyedidia]

This is a bit hacky but at the moment you can do micro file.txt:10000 and as long as your file is less than 10000 lines it will put your cursor on the last line. It would probably be pretty easy to implement something like micro file.txt:end.

[ghost]

maybe file.txt:-1 could be added as an unobtrusive option

[vikramdurai]

or how about micro file.txt --last-line

[ghost]

Now what if you want to get the line before that? Maybe use Peano Numbers https://wiki.haskell.org/Peano_numbers

file.txt —pre(pre(last-line)) to get to the line before the line before the last line :D

[vikramdurai]

can we make it a command?

[vikramdurai]

"C-e last"
which will put you on the last line.
"C-e last 6". which will put you on the line 6 lines before the last line.
I think this will work!

[ghost]

"C-e last"
which will put you on the last line.
"C-e last 6". which will put you on the line 6 lines before the last line.
I think this will work!

Ctrl+L works for jumping to a line, it could support -1 as well to jump to lines, counting from the bottom

[vikramdurai]

I still think this needs to be a command though.
"C-e l i 4": the "l" is an abbreviation for the last line, the "i" means invert the ordering, and the "4" means the 4th line. But since "i" inverts the order, "4" becomes "-4" which is the 4th line before the last line.

[mixmastamyk]

Default keybindings are Ctrl+Down to end of file, I believe.

[jpmvferreira]

I would also like to support this feature and considering there's a goto command it shouldn't be too complicated to add a syntax like the one mentioned before micro file -1:1 to go to the last line, first column.

Personally I use micro to get the output of my terminal so I can easily copy output from terminal programs and obviously needs to start at the end, currently as a workaround I just set the starting line to be the maximum length of my terminal history, which also works as expected.

[terokarvinen]

Many text editors, including micro and nano, support

$ micro +9999999 foo.txt

It's also quite fast to type. I find it more obvious and universal than a special feature. If I would meet a file with more lines than strconv.Atoi can handle, I probably would not use a text editor to view it.

[Justinzobel]

Ctrl + Page Down seems to do nothing at the moment. This could be a shortcut to run goto -1 and would easily allow users to get to the bottom of a file.

[Justinzobel]

Did a bit of digging and added the custom commands to my bindings.json file:

    "CtrlPageDown": "command:goto -1",
    "CtrlPageUp": "command:goto 1"