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Re: Byte offset from point


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Byte offset from point
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:18:42 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-08-12 12:06 (-0700), senny wrote:
> On 12 Aug., 20:57, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>     (position-bytes (point))
>
> I tried that but it gave me incorrect results when dealing with
> newlines on windows. The lisp function counted them as 1 byte but the
> service i was calling counted them as 2 bytes.

Maybe you can do the correction manually. Count newlines twice:
    
    (+ (position-bytes (point))
       (how-many "\n" 1 (point)))

Or something like that.


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