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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#37393: 26.2.90; [PATCH] Speed up 'csv-align-fields' |
Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:14:45 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Once again, risking to talk about something I don't clearly > understand: vertical-motion already allows you to pass an argument > which tells what is the current column. > Any rationale to use current-column instead of vertical-motion? But we need to measure the width of a particular chunk of buffer text, and I don't see how vertical-motion can be used for that: the only things it returns are: - a new point position - the number of screen lines moved over I can't see how to use it to compute the text's width. Stefan
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