From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Angelo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: About column numbers Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:33:31 +0200 Message-ID: <56FB02BB.3090501@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459290854 9347 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2016 22:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:34:14 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 00:34:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1al2D6-00067J-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:34:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al2D2-0005Xn-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:34:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al2Cp-0005XS-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al2Ck-0007bY-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:33:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp203.alice.it ([82.57.200.99]:5146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1al2Ck-0007bU-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.101] (79.47.237.141) by smtp203.alice.it (8.6.060.43) (authenticated as angelo.graziosi@alice.it) id 56FAA32500320B1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:33:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.99 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202421 Archived-At: When the option about column numbers is enabled, the column numbers start from "0" (zero). In other words, when the cursor in in the top-left corner of the buffer, the mode line displays (1,0) line number : 1 column number : 0 Why columns start from 0 (zero) and not 1 as for lines? Would it be better (1,1)? Is there some settings to change this behavior? If not, I would suggest to change this in Emacs.. or to add some settings to change this.. Angelo