From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: window-line and window-column Date: 7 Oct 2005 17:20:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1128730847.529641.178320@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> References: <1128725063.828807.151870@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128731276 5362 80.91.229.2 (8 Oct 2005 00:27:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 02:27:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO2Xo-0006jk-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EO2Xn-0000g8-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:26:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.34.3.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1128730852 32362 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2005 00:20:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 00:20:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.34.3.210; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134485 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30062 Archived-At: Neon Absentius wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:44:23PM -0700, rgb wrote: > > How can I tell where, within the current window, I am. > > > > Is there any way to tell what window line I'm currently on? Even if I > > use move-to-window-line and it's successful I may not actually be on > > that line when it returns. But realistically, I need to know what line > > I'm on without moving and I don't see how I can tell. > > > > I can't seem to fine a way to tell what window column I'm in either. > > It seems I could probably use (window-width), (current-column) and > > truncate-lines to figure it out but comments about popup-ruler on the > > wiki make me think such a formula wouldn't be accurate. > > > > These > > (setq line-number-mode t) > (setq column-number-mode t) > > display the line number and curent column in the modeline. > But 1) I need the values programatically which neither supplies. 2) Niether actually displays the values I'm looking for either. They simply display (current-column) and (line-number-at-pos) which are of little use to this situation.