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 13:49:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83edtfbd7w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wn77bph9.fsf@gnu.org> <83mt83bi7m.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28732"; 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 12:50:35 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 1p1nVy-0007Hb-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:50:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1nVa-0003rk-5B; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:50:10 -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 1p1nVP-0003rB-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:50:02 -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 1p1nVO-0002LM-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:49:58 -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=XxeVMjGsQVfIqfnUPULLbMmgPpZmtXXs4M8z7fqalvA=; b=GjkpAHJqNuJb R8wdRY2rLdVkrOes3lny009L6jlkaLzWjHWeVBHvrbvXa2ccPygU8ehvBLziTGgF4ouo6mBfeyxF5 CDN7hQMdeI5osJDdEx9mO7A/fggbBQBQMQ02bQ9FY8Y4yhNrZ6rhFuVTEQLCfe2gsTW8oHYzGfqid PABgzy++AO55cZFHvdFvbvUdz4V4mwyKw8nLC5MvfsjObcXC6BmvW5hLG7LFZCr9Mza/FnuEn2Or1 U0eRYDDMoVGg6xmRcDZe8rkx34rf9pPUHsHc2c9M98d4Z3Zm9B2XT89lKf4TFW3FZDsg3Z3pbPMBE 6LBYoZqccx7RB4xFAs+srA==; 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 1p1nVN-00066n-VF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:49:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Sun, 04 Dec 2022 11:16:47 +0000) 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:141343 Archived-At: > 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.