From: senny <yves.senn@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Byte offset from point
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:06:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c08d46a-482d-4c99-b815-f06a97f6e9de@d4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y6pouagb.fsf@iki.fi
On 12 Aug., 20:57, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 11:44 (-0700), senny wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a way to get the exact byte-offset from the cursor
> > position. I need this value to call an external service. Is there a
> > way to achieve this in emacs?
>
> Perhaps this:
>
> (position-bytes (point))
I tried that but it gave me incorrect results when dealing with
newlines on windows. The lisp function counted them as 1 byte but the
service i was calling counted them as 2 bytes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 18:44 Byte offset from point senny
2009-08-12 18:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-12 19:06 ` senny [this message]
2009-08-12 19:18 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-12 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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