Re: Going to line n, column m

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:
>> 
>>> Mauricio <briqueabraque@yahoo.com> 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.


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.


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