line-range: teach -L^/RE/ to search from start of file

diff --git a/line-range.c b/line-range.c
index bbf3c0f4481e9dd762d6a55e531cb983bbcbaff1..70484899aca0592de3f08e31ca05d9d668ccb7ff 100644 (file)
--- a/line-range.c
+++ b/line-range.c
@@ -59,8 +59,14 @@ static const char *parse_loc(const char *spec, nth_line_fn_t nth_line,
                return term;
        }
 
-       if (begin < 0)
-               begin = -begin;
+       if (begin < 0) {
+               if (spec[0] != '^')
+                       begin = -begin;
+               else {
+                       begin = 1;
+                       spec++;
+               }
+       }
 
        if (spec[0] != '/')
                return spec;