From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the current column regardless of the content of the current line?
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:52:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07bcf6a5327265f13873@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7s3ken9.fsf@gnu.org>
>> (defun my/current-column ()
>> (- (point) (pos-bol)))
>
> It's not entirely correct to call this a "column", though...
>
That's what the OP wanted, indeed it's not a "column" in the visual sense
anymore (e.g. a TAB counts for 1), but it's still a "column" in a "number
of characters" sense. Well, almost: when glyphs are composed, that
function will not give the result the OP expects I think, e.g. with a line
with only "🧙🏻" 2 is returned.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-15 19:22 How to get the current column regardless of the content of the current line? Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-15 21:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-15 21:41 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-15 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-15 22:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-16 8:52 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-12-16 21:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-16 3:28 ` Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-16 5:12 ` Jean Louis
2022-12-16 17:44 ` Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-17 4:07 ` Jean Louis
2022-12-17 5:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-17 5:53 ` Emanuel Berg
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