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From: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the current column regardless of the content of the current line?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:28:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGxMbPb0iSbw3Yg7dkSGZrL4OZ5HOSU8_XOPPcb0LtxOKA8VRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da0c324f2b54ed690b75@heytings.org>

Thanks! That works well.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 4:41 PM Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
wrote:

>
> >> Which function could I use to obtain the column of the current position
> >> that would work for any line regardless of its content?
> >
> > (defun my/current-column ()
> >   (- (point) (progn (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point)))))
> >
>
> Sorry, the progn is unnecessary:
>
> (defun my/current-column ()
>    (- (point) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))))
>
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16  3:28 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
2022-12-16  8:52           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 21:43             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-16  3:28     ` Rodrigo Morales [this message]
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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