Re: column number starts at 1 or 0?

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: This has been discussed a few months ago on comp.emacs.xemacs. Some thoughts: * It is logical for column-number-mode to count columns starting from 1, because that is the way lines are counted by line-number-mode. It was plain silly in older XEmacsen to press M-< and find yourself on "line 1, column 0". * what-cursor-position displays column numbers starting from 0 because of the long history of doing so, and consistency with `current-column' (the latter not being eligible to change because of Lisp incompatibility the change would cause). When the `column-number-start-at-one' feature was added, it was deemed "safe" to change the relatively new modeline feature and leave the old function alone. In a way, I approve of this conservative choice. So column-number-mode needs to be consistent with two contradictory things, which is impossible. I think we should make `what-cursor-position' respect `column-number-start-at-one' variable. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- "A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appalls."