Re: column number starts at 1 or 0?
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
Of course point is between characters. `C-x =' currently returns
the
column left of the character. There is no reason why it couldn't
return the column on the right (i.e. 1 at beginning of line), as it is
written in the modeline.
No, this means that "0, 1" is just as "natural" as "1, 1"
for
`point-min'.
Maybe it is even better, since it emphasizes that point is *on* a
line, but *between* columns, thus help preventing all the horrors that
follows from vi thinking.
Bar cursor is hard to find on the screen; it's too narrow.
Sure, there are technical reasons we are stuck with a block cursor,
even though it leads to vi thinking. However, that should not be used
as an excuse for allowing vi thinking in other parts of the editor.