Re: Inserting at particular buffer position

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Sunday, December 4th, 2022 at 3:52 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sunday, 2022-12-04 16:21:41 +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> > * Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com [2022-12-04 04:14]:
> > 
> > > The function "insert", inserts characters into the current buffer,
> > > at point, moving point forward. But how can I insert at a
> > > particular position (row column).
> > 
> > I have Deja Vu.
> > 
> > (defun goto-x-y (x y)
> > "Goto to line X, char Y."
> > (goto-line x)
> > (goto-char (point-at-bol))
> > (forward-char y))
> 
> 
> Heime,
> 
> a week or so ago you flabbergasted me (and probably others) with your
> claim that programming is neither engineering nor science, but rather
> sports. This claim made me gasp at first, but gradually I am getting
> your point. While what makes up the Art of Programming can be looked-up
> in Donald Knuth's book, what makes up the Sports of Programming can be
> looked-up in your mails: just stubbornly nag people with sometimes very
> imprecise questions, assumptions and allegations, and sooner or later
> good-natured people like Jean Louis and plenty of others fall victim to
> your tactics and start writing you the programmes you need.

Sounds like an episode from "Our Gang", Doctor.

> You have meanwhile got so many code snippets to solve your problems that
> with a little additional manual reading, thinking, testing and adapting
> your programme(s) should almost be working.
> 
> I take this as a Proof of Concept that programming is sports. Congratu-
> lations :-)

I'll invite you to the party for sure.
 
> Sincerely,
> Rainer