VMS Help EDIT, /TPU, /START_POSITION  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

  /START_POSITION=(row[,column])

  Determines the row and column where the cursor first appears in the
  main (or first) buffer.  If you specify multiple input files on the
  EDIT/TPU command line, this qualifier applies to each buffer.  Does
  not affect other buffers you create during the editing session.

  For EVE, the default start position is 1,1, which is the upper left
  corner of the MAIN (or first) buffer---row 1, column 1.  Does not
  affect the initial cursor position when you create other buffers
  during the editing session and does not limit the buffer size.

  Use /START_POSITION to begin editing at a particular line (or row) or
  at a particular character position (or column), such as when you want
  to skip over a standard heading in a file, or if a batch log file or
  error message tells you there is an error on a given line of a
  program, you can specify that line number as the starting row, so
  that when you edit the program source file, the cursor moves directly
  to that line.  For example, the following command edits a file named
  TEST.COM, putting the cursor on line 10, column 5:

     $ EDIT/TPU test.com /START_POSITION=(10,5)

  If you simply want to begin editing at the start of a particular line
  in the buffer or input file, you can omit the second parameter (the
  column) and you need not use parentheses.  For example, the following
  command edits a file named MEMO.TXT putting the cursor at the start
  of line 10:

     $ EDIT/TPU memo.txt /START_POSITION=10