From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Byte offset from point Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:57:24 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87y6pouagb.fsf@iki.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250106144 7361 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2009 19:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:42:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 12 21:42:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbJiD-00008U-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbJiA-0007cj-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:42:14 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+UfrQhla/atXQKz7N6Sethd9JiessZ9oj7znCUCLVakRa6WGQuI4qCJZ7RYvvuKDrjAHct0+aLhwuOFOvcNqrqXaSYgtHrAuqeHMFMEwXMOqQATQIjjMWd1eVkxiahKIi0cizDl9s9aA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/dcyKOnFBPVf361vMsY3luUzcF8BmwVeqAdx0tAkmzsg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:RjNLR7H0QTtZWaDcSUJpVnYI5to= sha1:vKyygA6KDe9dXW9Ss46fAjsn+s4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171921 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67096 Archived-At: On 2009-08-12 11:44 (-0700), senny wrote: > I am looking for a way to get the exact byte-offset from the cursor > position. I need this value to call an external service. Is there a > way to achieve this in emacs? Perhaps this: (position-bytes (point))