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Re: Going to line n, column m


From: Joost Kremers
Subject: Re: Going to line n, column m
Date: 7 Oct 2008 20:52:03 GMT
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Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> `goto-line' and `move-to-column'
>
> They don't work ;-)
>
> If you don't believe me, try:
>
> RET C-u 40 M-x move-to-column RET

works just fine. it's just that move-to-column won't move the cursor beyond
the newline at the end of the line. so to move to column 40, you actually
need to have at least forty characters on the current line.


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Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
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