From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:54:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EBF6A5.1080304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdw456w4.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com>
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>> Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Mauricio <briqueabraque@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>> `goto-line' and `move-to-column'
>>> They don't work ;-)
>>>
>>> If you don't believe me, try:
>>>
>>> RET C-u 40 M-x move-to-column RET
>> To increase your credibility please show how to reproduce it ;-)
>
> Yes of course. Just type again:
>
> RET C-u 40 M-x move-to-column RET
>
> and once more the cursor will stay on column 1.
It does not for me, even if the line is shorter than 40 chars. But I am
using the latest CVS version.
> Want to reproduce it yet another time? No problem, just type again:
>
> RET C-u 40 M-x move-to-column RET
>
> and once more the cursor will stay on column 1.
>
>
>> More seriously, this might be a bug, but it works for me using CVS Emacs 23.
>
> It's not a bug, it's a feature of move-to-column. Hence my
> implementation of goto-xy.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 17:08 Going to line n, column m Mauricio
2008-10-07 20:32 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.498.1223411586.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-07 20:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-07 20:52 ` Joost Kremers
2008-10-07 20:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-08 0:00 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.501.1223412938.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-07 23:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-07 23:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.512.1223423709.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 2:29 ` Chetan
2008-10-08 14:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.566.1223475737.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 17:32 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-08 18:54 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-08 19:57 ` Mauricio
[not found] ` <mailman.605.1223492071.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 20:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-08 21:08 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-08 21:15 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.618.1223500557.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-08 21:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-09 2:42 ` stan
2008-10-09 6:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-09 22:49 ` stan
2008-10-09 23:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] <mailman.476.1223399312.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-07 17:23 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-10-07 18:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.485.1223405182.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-07 18:58 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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