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bug#18342: 24.3.93; jumping to compilation error location gives the wron
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#18342: 24.3.93; jumping to compilation error location gives the wrong column |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:34:10 +0200 |
> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:41:30 +0300
>
> The column numbers emitted by the compiler most probably mean "screen
> columns" - just where you made an error in the source file. I don't
> know of compilers which do differently (I usually work only with
> Oracle's Java compiler so I'm not the best person to state that).
>
> If emacs and the compiler agree on source file encoding (and they should
> be tuned to agree), then emacs just needs to go that count of chars
> forward from the beginning of line.
Character counts don't depend on encoding. Only byte counts depend on
encoding.
So I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.