From: psachin <iclcoolster@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: About column numbers
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:13:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANN44o-NhMiysEk3y7EakWSNxzdEAqm=1theKRibPzjFd8_t+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FB02BB.3090501@alice.it>
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Digging goes back to file src/indent.c. Function: current-column
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
wrote:
> When the option about column numbers is enabled, the column numbers start
> from "0" (zero). In other words, when the cursor in in the top-left corner
> of the buffer, the mode line displays
>
> (1,0)
>
> line number : 1
> column number : 0
>
> Why columns start from 0 (zero) and not 1 as for lines? Would it be better
> (1,1)?
>
> Is there some settings to change this behavior? If not, I would suggest to
> change this in Emacs.. or to add some settings to change this..
>
> Angelo
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 22:33 About column numbers Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 5:43 ` psachin [this message]
2016-03-30 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-30 17:28 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-03 23:15 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-30 18:02 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 19:17 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-31 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 16:44 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-02 16:29 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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