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Re: column numbers for non-ASCII characters in error messages


From: Ben Pfaff
Subject: Re: column numbers for non-ASCII characters in error messages
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:56:27 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/18/2010 10:38 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> Emacs computes column positions in terms of display width.
>
> I'd count column positions the same way, for compatibility
> with Emacs; that sounds most useful.  Besides, it's supposed
> to be a column count, not a byte count or a grapheme cluster count.

Fair enough.  Thanks for the feedback.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org



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