From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Byte offset from point
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:18:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz0cu9gt.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2c08d46a-482d-4c99-b815-f06a97f6e9de@d4g2000yqa.googlegroups.com
On 2009-08-12 12:06 (-0700), senny wrote:
> On 12 Aug., 20:57, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> (position-bytes (point))
>
> I tried that but it gave me incorrect results when dealing with
> newlines on windows. The lisp function counted them as 1 byte but the
> service i was calling counted them as 2 bytes.
Maybe you can do the correction manually. Count newlines twice:
(+ (position-bytes (point))
(how-many "\n" 1 (point)))
Or something like that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 18:44 Byte offset from point senny
2009-08-12 18:57 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-08-12 19:06 ` senny
2009-08-12 19:18 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2009-08-12 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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