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From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:01:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEC79EA1-6FDF-43BC-ABEA-E78EFFC0A53C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwnx19vx8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>



> On Dec 28, 2020, at 9:40 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 
>> to get the column number counting from the visual line beginning. Is
>> there a function that does what I want? If not, maybe we should add
>> one, or add an argument to current-column.
> 
> `posn-at-point`?
> 

That works, albeit a bit convoluted comparing to current-column and only works when point is visible. Another less legit point is that posn-at-point is a bit far-fetched semantically: for me it is more about GUI pixel positions than text-based column and line positions. All things considered, I still prefer a dedicated function or an additional argument to current-column.

Yuan


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-29  2:19 Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning Yuan Fu
2020-12-29  2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-29  5:01   ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2020-12-29  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 21:05       ` Yuan Fu

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