From: Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to set a "goal column" for 'beginning-of-line'?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:46:16 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051122174616.A06993F32@rocksteady.printf.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051122153518.8F0E53F32@rocksteady.printf.se> (message from Henrik Enberg on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:35:18 +0100 (CET))
> From: Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:35:18 +0100 (CET)
>
> > From: "Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:50:53 +0800
> >
> > The command 'beginning-of-line' moves point to column 0
> > by default. Is it possible to set a "goal column," so that
> > this command moves point to that column, e.g. column 7,
> > rather than 0? The content before such column will become
> > irreachable in this situation (but it might still be displayed).
>
> (goto-char (+ (line-beginning-position) 7))
Eh, I didn't read carefully enough. You wanna read the Emacs Lisp
manual on text properties. The `field' might be of interest. Some
functions like beginning-of-line stop moving when they encounter such a
property.
(info "(elisp) Text Properties")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-22 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-22 12:50 Is it possible to set a "goal column" for 'beginning-of-line'? Herbert Euler
2005-11-22 15:35 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-11-22 17:46 ` Henrik Enberg [this message]
2005-11-26 9:58 ` Herbert Euler
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2005-11-22 18:29 ` rgb
2005-11-22 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-23 2:16 ` Herbert Euler
2005-11-23 2:32 ` Herbert Euler
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2005-11-23 7:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-23 8:51 ` Herbert Euler
[not found] <mailman.16440.1132735879.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-12-01 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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