From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:20:07 +0800 Message-ID: <874qbqjol4.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119465864 22921 80.91.229.2 (22 Jun 2005 18:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 20:44:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlACe-00074E-CY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:44:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlAGw-0005Yg-Sm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlAGf-0005V7-C5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DlAGT-0005My-Me for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlAGT-0005Ma-9Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.74.68.40] (helo=frodo.hserus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DlAIg-0008JS-8X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [218.187.79.15] (port=32933 helo=jidanni1) by frodo.hserus.net with esmtpsa (Cipher TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51 #0) id 1DlAFU-00001n-Ot by authid with plain for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:16:59 +0530 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12302 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12302 I'm sitting in a unicode buffer and I want to go to the 2345th byte. ESC 2 3 4 5 C-f will take me to the 2345th character, wide and narrow included, but not the 2345th byte. Therefore there should be an additional command that operates byte wise. No I don't want to leave unicode mode. So a C-f analog that counts in bytes would be good. "byte-forward-char" sounds good but must be an unrelated variable. P.S. C-f runs the command forward-char Move point right N characters (left if N is negative). Perhaps that right and left stuff should be reworded in view of BIDI (Arabic, Hebrew) languages? Just say forward and backward?