From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:23:16 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87zllg720r.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223401326 8404 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 17:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:42:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 19:43:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnGZ2-0003x7-Su for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnGXz-0001zT-7z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp20-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:boFSS9lnD1qlgocWt6WSmeH5vPE= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Oct 2008 19:23:16 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1223400196 news-4.free.fr 17742 88.182.134.169:38251 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163151 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58494 Archived-At: Mauricio writes: > 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? Usually, x is the column, and y is the line. (defun goto-xy (column line) (interactive "nColumn: nLine: ") (let ((lines (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))) (cond ((< line 0) (error "Cannot go before the beginning of buffer.")) ((< line lines) (beginning-of-buffer) (forward-line line)) (t (end-of-buffer) (insert (make-string (- line lines) 10)))) (let ((columns (- (progn (end-of-line) (point)) (progn (beginning-of-line) (point))))) (cond ((< column 0) (error "Cannot go before the beginning of line")) ((< column columns) (forward-char column)) (t (end-of-line) (insert (make-string (- column columns) 32))))))) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ "Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!"