From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the number of displayed line the point is in? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:12:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87muw6v7u2.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <876030rvk9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528391584 18903 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2018 17:13:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:13:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ben Bacarisse Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 19:13:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyT5-0004kg-TB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:13:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyVC-0007em-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyUA-0007ZK-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyU8-0007LA-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:36665) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQyU8-0007Kp-LJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA718E68A2; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:14:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NfyVlxLA7j3s; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:14:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08A35E688F; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:14:01 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <876030rvk9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117020 Archived-At: On 2018-06-03, at 12:52, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> as in the subject. I want to know how far the point is from the top of >> the screen. (What I actually need to do is to inert something in the >> current buffer in such a position so that it appears precisely on the >> last visible line.) > > I'd start with: > > (progn > (goto-char (window-end)) > (forward-line -1)) > > and work round problems like partial lines, the last line not having a > newline after it and whether the display changes as a result of the > positioning as you encounter them! > > Caveat: I'm no expert. For all I know there's a > "put-point-at-start-of-last-whole-visible-line-in-window-without-scrolling" > function. Thanks, and this might be the best solution (I have fairly good control over everything in the buffer - e.g., I have truncate-line-mode on.) -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl