From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to specify argument to move-to-column function Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:57:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172026656 27923 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2007 02:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:57:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 21 03:57:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJhfd-0001Ii-GE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:57:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJhfd-0001lp-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJhfS-0001la-3F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJhfP-0001lO-OO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:57:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJhfP-0001lL-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HJhfP-0005CK-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HJhfC-0005Iy-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:57:02 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:57:02 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:57:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41363 Archived-At: 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