From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:08:19 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1223500434.82465@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <87zllg5ee7.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <87vdw456w4.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <87d4ib56xl.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <871vyq6eml.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223502080 4082 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2008 21:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 23:42:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kngn0-0000az-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:41:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knglw-00006b-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:40:44 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1223500452 17399 143.93.54.11 (8 Oct 2008 21:14:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:14:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: <871vyq6eml.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-101-192.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163231 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:58575 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Nikolaj Schumacher writes: > >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: >> >>>> But even if he did, move-to-column is capable of doing so. There's no >>>> need for an elaborate (and error-prone) re-implementation. >>> By now, it should be clear that it IS NOT, RIGHT NOW capable of doing >>> so, but WILL BE able to do it, when emacs 23.0 will be released. >> What are you talking about? I'm using Emacs 22 and it works "right >> now". Why would you even assume I'm talking about Emacs 23? > > emacs-version "22.2.1" > ^ C-u C-x C-e > (progn (move-to-column 79)(insert "x"))x > ^ C-x C-e > It just doesn't work here. > Perhaps it depends on the major-mode, but I've never seen it work as > you say. > It depends on the second argument. -ap