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Re: About column numbers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: About column numbers |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:21:29 +0300 |
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:33:31 +0200
>
> When the option about column numbers is enabled, the column numbers
> start from "0" (zero). In other words, when the cursor in in the
> top-left corner of the buffer, the mode line displays
>
> (1,0)
>
> line number : 1
> column number : 0
>
> Why columns start from 0 (zero) and not 1 as for lines? Would it be
> better (1,1)?
Why is it a problem for column number to start at zero? Emacs always
worked like that.
> Is there some settings to change this behavior?
No. You could, of course, come up with a mode-line format that would
display column-number + 1, but that would only change this on display,
not internally.
> If not, I would suggest to change this in Emacs.. or to add some
> settings to change this..
Then you'd need to change every interface that accepts or returns
column numbers, like move-to-column, posn-at-point, etc. Is it really
worth it?
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