From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About column numbers
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:39:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8u0y49bt.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56FD53F6.5090805@gmail.com
>> (it would break some code, but most of it is already fundamentally
>> broken because it should use `point-min` rather than hardcoding 1, so
>> it's not *that* terrible).
> Amusingly, always using (point-min) also leads to interesting bugs.
Oh yes. Along with the "hard narrowing" discussion, it would be good to
have a way to get the "external point-min". Currently the only portable
way (short of hardcoding 1) is via (save-restriction (widen)
(point-min)) which is rather round-about and inefficient.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-31 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 22:33 About column numbers Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 5:43 ` psachin
2016-03-30 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-30 17:28 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-30 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-03 23:15 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-30 18:02 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-30 18:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-30 19:17 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-31 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 16:44 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-04-02 16:29 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-02 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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