From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting at particular buffer position Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:10:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83bkojbc8p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wn77bph9.fsf@gnu.org> <83mt83bi7m.fsf@gnu.org> <83edtfbd7w.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6912"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 13:11:32 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p1nqG-0001f8-Ou for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:11:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1nps-0000wx-RL; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1npq-0000wV-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1npp-0003d5-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:11:05 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Fx1ayUGFTzG1vK3h7ke0juncya74sC3AjjZZh77cWks=; b=G2yWDpsuMqnW xmiU6lpWgbpeYv/bGVRN4mJQlDtJpeNClj0A1/B7SPKOx9/iT6t0J1ID1FElkOEDssOYfmG2Hovm9 JOC3RcI6KL/qUdHugkQzOlfKJctyZLCexPMCX9f3WWEobQkvfQTthP/VWo77cLgzNz6j9EXHk9CpN ctRON+GDgWOOLEDpCvQT2or2ggAVv1v9mUd/Ho9yDmL0xBiqnYnbGDsYD2gNV5M1XfqN/EcdeZfkb ytZlslpxmoX7LMwGY8n6x1NRV+hFp9w03CtTtft29MJYDdluu1NRSp50S1TP56ym8bZ0yB65TomIy oseJVohh/mFwQrDLC+U1qw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1npo-0005g4-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:11:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83edtfbd7w.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:49:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141346 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 13:49:39 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 11:16:47 +0000 > > From: Heime > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > > A problem that I encounter is that if the position (row col) is not available, > > > > point does not switch to the correct position. > > > > > > > > > What do you mean by "position not available"? > > > > > > How do you compute that position's row and column, if it isn't available? > > > > Suppose I insert in the current buffer, to a line larger than the greatest line > > where the cursor can go. Nothing gets printed after that. And if I try to print > > to a column which is larger than available whitespace, things do not get printed. > > Insert enough newlines where you lack lines, and insert enough SPC > characters to have the column you want. Also, the function move-to-column can optionally insert SPC characters if the line is shorter than the column to which you want to get.