From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to specify argument to move-to-column function
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:57:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ergcdh$qib$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb9f05100702140630h2fe66ecao24acf8e01c62b545@mail.gmail.com>
Ankur Jain wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to use move-to-column function in Emacs. Following the
> documentation,
>
> *Function : move-to-column * /column &optional force
> /This function moves point to column in the current line. The
> calculation of column takes into account the widths of the displayed
> representations of the characters between the start of the line and point.
>
> I cannot specify the column parameter to move to a particular column say
> 20. Please help.
The doc string should mention that the COLUMN arg can be specified
interactively as the prefix arg.
C-u 20 M-x move-to-column
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 14:30 How to specify argument to move-to-column function Ankur Jain
2007-02-14 14:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-15 5:49 ` Ankur Jain
2007-02-21 2:57 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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