From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: About column numbers
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:02:20 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XDQmTR1M6=+a4yMAjkHFkDEnx4oFQiH57UUNLW2dzM4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FC0CDB.9090707@alice.it>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi@alice.it> wrote:
> Yes, I know.. this is not a fundamental, but why that "unnatural"
> convention? I don't know other editor/IDE which uses columns from zero..
Vim counts columns from 1.
Midnight Commander counts from 0.
Mousepad counts from 0.
Nano counts from 1.
Joe counts from 1.
Gedit counts from 1.
Kate counts from 1.
Geany counts from 0.
Anjuta counts from 0.
Firefox’s Scratchpad counts from 1.
Counting columns from 0 is very convenient. You look at the column
number and immediately know how many characters you have before the
point, and whether you are on a tab stop.
Lines are a different beast — you have to be compatible with the
convention compilers use to report errors, and pretty much all of them
count lines from 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 22:33 About column numbers Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 5:43 ` psachin
2016-03-30 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-30 17:28 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-03 23:15 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-30 18:02 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2016-03-30 18:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 19:17 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-31 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 16:44 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-02 16:29 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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