From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: line-start? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:42:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87wo8y9tv4.fsf@bzg.fr> References: <87ftfof1xl.fsf@gnu.org> <877e0zrhud.fsf@gnu.org> <83o8ubfu9l.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9oiucdn.fsf@bzg.fr> <838sleg3d6.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfpe7lmk.fsf@bzg.fr> <83zhduelui.fsf@gnu.org> <878sle7jx9.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo8yecm9.fsf@gnu.org> <87h802a21a.fsf@bzg.fr> <83tv42e6i6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="87077"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 07 18:43:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j07ew-000MYJ-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33376 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j07ev-0005UO-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j07eN-0004rB-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j07eN-0002ct-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-32-82-254-31-120.adsl.proxad.net ([82.254.31.120]:55600 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1j07eM-0008DJ-54; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB7341A60CCE; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 18:42:39 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83tv42e6i6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:56:01 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244896 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > That's not the column number, that's the ordinal number of the > character on a line. It doesn't take into account characters that > take more than one column, it doesn't take into account characters > that are composed to produce a single grapheme cluster (or even a > single glyph), and it doesn't take into account variable-size fonts. Fair enough. > Of course, if all these are unimportant in your use case, you can > disregard them. But a general-purpose function cannot disregard > them. Agreed! -- Bastien