From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the current column regardless of the content of the current line?
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:10:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7s3ken9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da0c324f2be5566e3de6@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:02:59 +0000)
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:02:59 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
>
> >> (defun my/current-column ()
> >> (- (point) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))))
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > (line-beginning-position)
> >
> > -- Stefan
> >
>
> Indeed. Or even 'pos-bol':
>
> (defun my/current-column ()
> (- (point) (pos-bol)))
It's not entirely correct to call this a "column", though...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-15 19:22 How to get the current column regardless of the content of the current line? Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-15 21:37 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-15 21:41 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-15 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-15 22:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-16 8:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 21:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-16 3:28 ` Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-16 5:12 ` Jean Louis
2022-12-16 17:44 ` Rodrigo Morales
2022-12-17 4:07 ` Jean Louis
2022-12-17 5:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-17 5:53 ` Emanuel Berg
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