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* Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
@ 2020-12-29  2:19 Yuan Fu
  2020-12-29  2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Yuan Fu @ 2020-12-29  2:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel\@gnu.org

I need to know the column number of the point on the current _visual_ line. current-column measures from logical beginning of line, so it gives rather unintuitive result on wrapped lines. I had to do this:

(save-excursion
    (let ((col (current-column)))
      ;; Go to visual line beginning.
      (vertical-motion 0)
      (- col (current-column))))

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.

Yuan


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* Re: Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
  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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2020-12-29  2:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yuan Fu; +Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org

> 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`?


        Stefan




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* Re: Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
  2020-12-29  2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2020-12-29  5:01   ` Yuan Fu
  2020-12-29  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Yuan Fu @ 2020-12-29  5:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel@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


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* Re: Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
  2020-12-29  5:01   ` Yuan Fu
@ 2020-12-29  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
  2020-12-29 21:05       ` Yuan Fu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-12-29  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel, Yuan Fu, Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org

On December 29, 2020 7:01:16 AM GMT+02:00, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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

The concept of "visual line" of some buffer position only makes sense in the context of displaying the buffer in some window.  That's because window dimensions and other window-specific aspects, such as faces and overlays, have direct and prominent effect on how physical lines are divided into visual lines.

Therefore, I don't think I understand how can a function exist that reports the "visual column" of a buffer position without telling it the window in which to display that buffer.  Could you perhaps outline the algorithm for such a function?  Perhaps there is some misunderstanding.



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* Re: Alternative to current-column that counts from visual line beginning
  2020-12-29  6:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2020-12-29 21:05       ` Yuan Fu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Yuan Fu @ 2020-12-29 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Stefan Monnier, emacs-devel



> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> On December 29, 2020 7:01:16 AM GMT+02:00, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
> 
> The concept of "visual line" of some buffer position only makes sense in the context of displaying the buffer in some window.  That's because window dimensions and other window-specific aspects, such as faces and overlays, have direct and prominent effect on how physical lines are divided into visual lines.
> 
> Therefore, I don't think I understand how can a function exist that reports the "visual column" of a buffer position without telling it the window in which to display that buffer.  Could you perhaps outline the algorithm for such a function?  Perhaps there is some misunderstanding.

I see your point. I use vertical-motion, which takes a window as argument (and defaults to the current window).

(save-excursion
   (let ((col (current-column)))
     ;; Go to visual line beginning.
     (vertical-motion 0)
     (- col (current-column))))


Yuan


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