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: Getting column position accounting for overlays Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:51:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8u6tplx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438743094 12485 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 02:51:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 02:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri D'Elia Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 04:51:25 2015 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 1ZMond-0002JZ-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 04:51:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMond-0001oQ-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMonZ-0001mv-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMonV-0007Vr-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMonV-0007Vn-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NSL00N008QA0500@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:51:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NSL00N7999F1H00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 05:51:15 +0300 (IDT) 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:188422 Archived-At: > From: Yuri D'Elia > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:01:24 +0200 > > Is there a quick way (without iterating through 'display overlays) to > get the current column position for the displayed text? What is "the current column position"? How do you define a "column" when text can include variable-size fonts and images? One answer to your question is posn-at-point, but I'm not sure that is what you want.