From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m Date: 7 Oct 2008 20:52:03 GMT Message-ID: References: <87zllg5ee7.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223415649 28336 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2008 21:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:40:49 +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 23:41:44 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 1KnKJI-0005dR-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KnKIE-0004Sx-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net K7A27IE6hOnbWgJAg69xhgta2siOxRL3eWrgE87FD4e+ah0MSo Cancel-Lock: sha1:U3oZMLdJsIeNal6cNLdOPQ9Q/48= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163166 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:58510 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> `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 works just fine. it's just that move-to-column won't move the cursor beyond the newline at the end of the line. so to move to column 40, you actually need to have at least forty characters on the current line. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)