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: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:54:13 +0200 Message-ID: <48EBF6A5.1080304@gmail.com> References: <87zllg5ee7.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> <87vdw456w4.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 1223423749 18840 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 23:55:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:55:49 +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 Wed Oct 08 01:56:46 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 1KnMPn-0007Lm-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnMOj-0005ey-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnMOR-0005de-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KnMOP-0005dS-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnMOP-0005dP-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:34433) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KnMOP-0007Fq-F3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64711 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KnMO2-0000wV-9V; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:54:55 +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: <87vdw456w4.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 1KnMO2-0000wV-9V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KnMO2-0000wV-9V f88d19610f8e4ffb23e6125871a43688 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:58513 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >>> Nikolaj Schumacher writes: >>> >>>> Mauricio 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. > >