From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37393@debbugs.gnu.org, "Simen Heggestøyl" <simenheg@gmail.com>,
sdl.web@gmail.com
Subject: bug#37393: 26.2.90; [PATCH] Speed up 'csv-align-fields'
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:14:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4l1an3dr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r24evnug.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:23:19 +0300")
> Once again, risking to talk about something I don't clearly
> understand: vertical-motion already allows you to pass an argument
> which tells what is the current column.
> Any rationale to use current-column instead of vertical-motion?
But we need to measure the width of a particular chunk of buffer text,
and I don't see how vertical-motion can be used for that: the only
things it returns are:
- a new point position
- the number of screen lines moved over
I can't see how to use it to compute the text's width.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-17 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-12 17:07 bug#37393: 26.2.90; [PATCH] Speed up 'csv-align-fields' Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-12 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-15 15:55 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-15 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-15 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-17 16:53 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-17 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-17 19:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-09-18 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-18 19:59 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-18 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-19 15:51 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-19 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-09 16:33 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2019-09-17 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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