Re: Going to line n, column m

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:

> It's not a bug, it's a feature of move-to-column.  Hence my
> implementation of goto-xy.

First of all, I think it's unlikely that the OP wanted to move to a line
and column that don't exist.  Your comment that it "doesn't work" is
misleading at best.

But even if he did, move-to-column is capable of doing so.  There's no
need for an elaborate (and error-prone) re-implementation.

(defun goto-xy (column line)
  (interactive "nColumn: \nnLine: ")
  (goto-line line)
  (newline (- line (line-number-at-pos)))
  (move-to-column column t))


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher