Re: current-column doesn't reflect display column any longer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:43:05 -0800
> 
> emacs -q
> 
> Enter some lines of text in a buffer, with some TAB characters in some
> of the lines.
> 
> Put the cursor just after one of the TABs and do `M-:
> (current-column)'. Do the same at places directly above or below the
> same position, in other lines that have not TABs (or a different
> number of TABs). Keep the cursor, in other words, in the same column
> and evaluat that `current-column'.
> 
> The result should always be the same, for the same column. It is
> not. Instead, each TAB is simply counted as one character.

It works for me with yesterday's CVS.  So it was fixed, unless you can
post a precise recipe that somehow breaks that.