Re: port-line and port-column

thi (ttn@zsp.com)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:05:47 -0800

> Assuming this is intentional, it should be documented in the manual.
> But I do believe that the "GNU standard" is that to be that column
> numbers start with one. I remember discussing this with Stallman,
> in the context of emacs's compile.el. Note this comment in
> compile.el:
> ;; Columns in error msgs are 1-origin.

hmm, `C-a M-: (current-column) RET' says 0. the `1-' in the comment
seems to be a verb, not an adjective. here's the referenced code:

;; Columns in error msgs are 1-origin.
(move-to-column (1- column))

regards,
thi