From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dedicated buffer with buttons that show messages in a central display area Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:54:06 +0100 Message-ID: <877czx2g29.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <7JoMGtkVaj2vOMXLHgljVCzArGL8AADy9AiTLvPrnQ80fWENK2Lv73o5DxLfZ4PwAt6G3PgqgBC_tzkSVMsrC3fQd7vW7WNHGHJchNejiW0=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4804"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VbkgJk3nTntfQKuW5o9NRI2MbnA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 17:35:46 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 1ouyuY-00013c-4S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:35:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ouyuG-0006xg-9r; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:35:28 -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 1oukDS-0001OV-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oukDO-0006x2-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oukDM-0000JU-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:54:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:35:26 -0500 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:140969 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > You may use function `goto-char' as linear movement. > > You could as well use `goto-line' and then (goto-char > (point-at-bol)) and after `forward-char' to go to some > column of the text, this reminds me as coordinate with > X and Y. > > (defun goto-x-y (x y) > "Goto to line X, char Y." > (goto-line x) > (goto-char (point-at-bol)) > (forward-char y)) Problematic, you can use gamegrid for this M-x tetris RET > (goto-char (point-at-bol)) It's called `line-beginning-position' now ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal