From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: what-cursor-position - why not list the line # as well? Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:02:02 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143939760 18516 80.91.229.2 (2 Apr 2006 01:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 01:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 02 03:02:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPqzB-0004QX-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:02:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPqzA-0001Hs-OA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPqyz-0001Hl-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:02:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPqyx-0001HW-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPqyx-0001HT-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FPr1g-0002pz-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k3212HZ5026432 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:02:17 -0600 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k3212G5W022307 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:02:16 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-216.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.72.216]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k3212GYP022289 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:02:16 -0700 Original-To: "Emacs-Devel" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52312 Archived-At: `what-cursor-position' gives lots of info about the cursor position, including the column: Char: d (100, #o144, #x64) point=298976 (99%) column=51 Why not have it also provide the line #? That way, people wouldn't need to use `what-line' as well as `what-cursor-position' to get all the info (and `what-line' is unbound in many buffers).