From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:43:35 +0200 Message-ID: <48EBADD7.8060204@gmail.com> References: <87zllg720r.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223405316 23596 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 18:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 20:49:33 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 1KnHbU-0002zU-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:48:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnHaQ-0004Kj-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnHZd-0004C3-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnHZc-0004Au-0u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43113 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnHZb-0004Ak-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:55690) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnHZb-0006ue-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61509 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KnHXR-0001Hv-7D; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:44:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87zllg720r.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081007-0, 2008-10-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KnHXR-0001Hv-7D. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KnHXR-0001Hv-7D 41dfe248507794dea8f61efcd2eac962 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:58496 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Mauricio writes: >> I think this is simple, but I wasn't able >> to find it anywhere: how can I tell emacs >> I want to go to line x, column y? > > Usually, x is the column, and y is the line. > > (defun goto-xy (column line) > (interactive "nColumn: > nLine: ") > (let ((lines (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))) > (cond > ((< line 0) (error "Cannot go before the beginning of buffer.")) > ((< line lines) (beginning-of-buffer) (forward-line line)) I think you need to use (widen) above. Please see `goto-line' - and why not use goto-line? > (t (end-of-buffer) (insert (make-string (- line lines) 10)))) > (let ((columns (- (progn (end-of-line) (point)) > (progn (beginning-of-line) (point))))) > (cond ((< column 0) (error "Cannot go before the beginning of line")) > ((< column columns) (forward-char column)) > (t (end-of-line) (insert (make-string (- column columns) 32))))))) > >