From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: andrea.rossetti@gmail.com, 17768@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17768: 24.3; problem with two ruler-mode windows
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:17:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r42quoy5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539DB726.1080908@gmx.at>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:09:26 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: andrea.rossetti@gmail.com, 17768@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > How else can column and row be measured, except from the window edge?
>
> From the left upper edge of the frame, just as the x-y-coordinates.
A column is fundamentally window-related. It's not a coordinate, it's
a place in the text, and frames don't display text.
> At least that's apparently what the author of ruler mode thought.
I'd prefer not to second-guess someone's misconceptions.
> > I don't understand the confusion, but I went out and made it more
> > clear anyway (r117242 on the emacs-24 branch).
>
> Thank you. But IIUC the reference to "window edge" is still missing
> from the manual entry.
The manual text explicitly talks about a column and row of text in a
window, so I think it's clear enough.
> > In general, one should stay away of columns when dealing with
> > coordinates, since columns are measured in logical order, i.e. in a
> > R2L line they are measured from the right edge of the window. But
> > since in this case columns are just x coordinates measured in other
> > units (and therefore calling them "columns" is a misnomer), I think
> > it's OK in this case.
>
> This means that we shouldn't provide `posn-col-row' in the first place
> which I'd consider the best solution.
I see no reason to delete well established APIs, just because Emacs
overgrew the time when they were named.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-15 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-12 23:57 bug#17768: 24.3; problem with two ruler-mode windows Andrea Rossetti
2014-06-13 7:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-14 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-15 15:09 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-15 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-06-16 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-14 17:22 ` Andrea Rossetti
2014-06-15 15:09 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-15 18:06 ` Andrea Rossetti
2014-06-15 23:22 ` Andrea Rossetti
2014-06-16 7:10 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-16 7:10 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-16 8:45 ` bug#17768: Andrea Rossetti
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