From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: About column numbers
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:46:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <830ba1d5-5844-455c-9c8e-02671771dce4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FC0CDB.9090707@alice.it>
> > Why is it a problem for column number to start at zero? Emacs always
> > worked like that.
>
> Yes, I know.. this is not a fundamental, but why that "unnatural"
> convention? I don't know other editor/IDE which uses columns from zero..
We should start with column 42. ;-)
> >> If not, I would suggest to change this in Emacs.. or to add some
> >> settings to change this..
> >
> > Then you'd need to change every interface that accepts or returns
> > column numbers, like move-to-column, posn-at-point, etc. Is it really
> > worth it?
> >
>
> what a pity! It would be an opportunity to modernize a bit Emacs...
Modernize schmodernize. ;-) Every new idea is not
necessarily a great idea. And every recently expressed
idea is not necessarily new.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 22:33 About column numbers Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 5:43 ` psachin
2016-03-30 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-30 17:28 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 17:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-03 23:15 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-30 18:02 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 19:17 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-31 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 16:44 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-02 16:29 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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