From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ankur Jain" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to specify argument to move-to-column function Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:00:35 +0530 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0180504970==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171463474 31243 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2007 14:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:31:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "Gnu Emacs Mailing List" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 15:30:58 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 1HHL9t-0002v7-8G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:30:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHL9s-0002Ts-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHL9d-0002Tn-L3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHL9c-0002Ta-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHL9b-0002TX-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HHL9b-0006NM-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:30:39 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so223240ugf for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:30:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=ZTzFEmi99uWyBUv4ef/R+XWdeaTMB/ksBrd5Oy/JHZZMH+K4df3VnzLUl8I1XyvA39GXLGxw4LDn1MxpsDrUfQ9DDUMWq8ABNt9Y5XqX6DfDOM86N4DHeaAQdsFDBMgVfyUoQyRNyfoPpWxZb1j2rJ6RuvyZxC5oe8U9qy3w+LQ= Original-Received: by 10.114.132.5 with SMTP id f5mr168577wad.1171463436039; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:30:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.115.59.5 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:30:35 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4984ed81f4d896bd X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:41193 Archived-At: --===============0180504970== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_83667_27347819.1171463435817" ------=_Part_83667_27347819.1171463435817 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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. Thanks Ankur Jain ------=_Part_83667_27347819.1171463435817 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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.

Thanks
Ankur Jain

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