Re: GNU Emacs position-bytes?

I'll try to explain but I'm afraid it is more or less what I wrote earlier. There is a tool, godef, that for example, can print info about an identifier in a go program. You can select the identifier by giving an offset for its location in the file given in bytes. Not characters, bytes. Godef can also read the program on stdin and then the offset for the interesting identifier is also in bytes. So gomode would like to feed the current buffer to godef (in utf-8) and give the position in bytes for the identifier it wants to get some info about. [...] I guess we could try to convince the authors of godef to add an option to supply the offset in characters instead of bytes (and probably send them a nice patch that implements it.) Or we could adjust to the world outside and implement some way for lisp to know, calculate!?, the underlying byte implementation for each encoding. (If it makes it easier we would only need to support utf-8 since a go program must be that) So that position-bytes could be supported. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta