From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting at particular buffer position Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:11:43 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83wn77bph9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30600"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+50 (c79959e) (2022-11-21) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 15:22:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p1ptI-0007j5-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:22:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1psf-0007lR-Sj; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 09:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1psc-0007l8-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 09:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p1psa-0000Zs-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 09:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.83.127.103]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055EA2.00000000638CAD09.0000763C; Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:22:01 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Heime , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141358 Archived-At: * Heime [2022-12-04 16:53]: > What can one do to get a new line and go to the beginning of the new line? By advise of Eli, using `move-to-column' that insert spaces if necessary: (defun goto-x-y-unconditionally (x y) "Goto to line X, char Y unconditionally." (let ((lines (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))) (when (< lines x) (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n" (make-string (- x lines) ?\n))) (goto-line x) (goto-char (point-at-bol)) (move-to-column y t))) -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/