Re: column number starts at 1 or 0?
"Mauro Condarelli" <MC5686(a)mclink.it> writes:
> >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper
<andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
>
> Andy> I'm with Kyle on this. But then I'm a hacker and my brain is
> Andy> wired up to start at 0 rather than 1.
>
> What's the difference between a rookie programmer and an
> experienced one?
>
> A novice thinks that a megabyte is 1000 bytes;
> An expert thinks that a kilometer is 1024 meters.
Exactly.
Let the novice have the default.
Make it possible for the expert to change it.
Yeah, but Kyle's argument was that other Emacs functions, like
set-fill-column, don't support this notion. I cannot help but agree,
so the feature must go away. Which is a shame. :-(
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