Re: Is it possible to set a "goal column" for 'beginning-of-line'?

[Henrik Enberg]

> From: Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:35:18 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > From: "Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:50:53 +0800
> > 
> > The command 'beginning-of-line' moves point to column 0
> > by default. Is it possible to set a "goal column," so that
> > this command moves point to that column, e.g. column 7,
> > rather than 0? The content before such column will become
> > irreachable in this situation (but it might still be displayed).
> 
> (goto-char (+ (line-beginning-position) 7))

Eh, I didn't read carefully enough.  You wanna read the Emacs Lisp
manual on text properties.  The `field' might be of interest.  Some
functions like beginning-of-line stop moving when they encounter such a
property.

(info "(elisp) Text Properties")