From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gcc.fortran,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and GFortran Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:03:01 +0100 Message-ID: <8564dhkrp6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20061102190005.GA6116@meiner.onlinehome.de> <200611030143.30545.steven.bosscher@gmail.com> <20061103010817.EA39144018@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20061103012103.GA49976@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <454AAA57.7090301@stanford.edu> <17739.37240.440687.793284@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <455A92E5.4000404@codesourcery.com> <17754.38861.243600.9872@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <455AA103.5080308@codesourcery.com> <17754.51328.522740.989797@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163581414 19550 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2006 09:03:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Brooks Moses , fortran@gcc.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: fortran-return-15802-gcgf-fortran=m.gmane.org@gcc.gnu.org Wed Nov 15 10:03:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcgf-fortran@gmane.org Original-Received: from sourceware.org ([209.132.176.174]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkGg1-0005wV-Ie for gcgf-fortran@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:03:25 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 18369 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2006 09:03:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18319 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Nov 2006 09:03:20 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,INFO_TLD,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:03:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GkGfo-0008LG-6j; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B913F1CE24FF; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:03:01 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <17754.51328.522740.989797@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Wed\, 15 Nov 2006 20\:57\:52 +1300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Mailing-List: contact fortran-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Original-Sender: fortran-owner@gcc.gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.gcc.fortran:15771 gmane.emacs.devel:62327 Archived-At: Nick Roberts writes: > > There is still an off-by-one error; we number the first column as 1 > > rather than 0. Given that there's a very strong tradition in Fortran of > > numbering columns starting with 1, and that off-by-one errors in column > > location are within the noise level of locating things (given that > > nearly all errors are several columns wide), I think it makes more sense > > overall to keep it the way it currently is. > > I see now this is the right way anyway (from "Formatting Error Messages" > in standards.info): > > Line numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the file, and > column numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the line. Then disregard my previous mail. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum