From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to get column number relative to the beginning of a screen line? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:55:31 +0200 Message-ID: <8338kq5r6k.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389725756 8909 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2014 18:55:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Darren Hoo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 19:56:03 2014 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 1W399d-0002lm-RV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:56:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W399d-0003ge-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:56:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W399T-0003c7-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:55:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W399K-00022Z-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:41566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W399K-00022S-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZE00L00N6RCH00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:55:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZE00LDDN8Q5560@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:55:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:168382 Archived-At: > From: Darren Hoo > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:59:32 +0800 > > if a line wrap or truncation happens how can I get the column number > relative to the beginning of the line displayed? for example: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog line > start of the continuation line > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > If point stays at , some function `current-screen-column' should > return the relative column number to "start". I think you want posn-at-point.