From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line-start?
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:42:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo8y9tv4.fsf@bzg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tv42e6i6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:56:01 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> That's not the column number, that's the ordinal number of the
> character on a line. It doesn't take into account characters that
> take more than one column, it doesn't take into account characters
> that are composed to produce a single grapheme cluster (or even a
> single glyph), and it doesn't take into account variable-size fonts.
Fair enough.
> Of course, if all these are unimportant in your use case, you can
> disregard them. But a general-purpose function cannot disregard
> them.
Agreed!
--
Bastien
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-06 10:24 line-start? Bastien
2020-02-06 13:00 ` line-start? Bastien
2020-02-06 18:25 ` line-start? Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 6:42 ` line-start? Bastien
2020-02-07 9:20 ` line-start? Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 10:11 ` line-start? Bastien
2020-02-07 10:24 ` line-start? Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 10:48 ` line-start? Bastien
2020-02-07 13:43 ` line-start? Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 14:46 ` line-start? Bastien
2020-02-07 15:56 ` line-start? Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-07 17:42 ` Bastien [this message]
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