Re: About column numbers

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 30/03/2016 17:21, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> > From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:33:31 +0200
> >
> > When the option about column numbers is enabled, the column numbers
> > start from "0" (zero). In other words, when the cursor in in the
> > top-left corner of the buffer, the mode line displays
> >
> >     (1,0)
> >
> > line number   : 1
> > column number : 0
> >
> > Why columns start from 0 (zero) and not 1 as for lines? Would it be
> > better (1,1)?
>
> Why is it a problem for column number to start at zero?  Emacs always
> worked like that.

Yes, I know.. this is not a fundamental, but why that "unnatural" 
convention? I don't know other editor/IDE which uses columns from zero..


> > If not, I would suggest to change this in Emacs.. or to add some
> > settings to change this..
>
> Then you'd need to change every interface that accepts or returns
> column numbers, like move-to-column, posn-at-point, etc.  Is it really
> worth it?

what a pity! It would be an opportunity to modernize a bit Emacs...

Anyway it was just a suggestion...

  Angelo