Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:53:21 +0900
> 
> martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
> > Technically columns are numbered by counting characters following the
> > last newline in the buffer text.
> 
> Eh?  Clearly they're not, because things like tabs expand into multiple
> columns...  Columns are a display concept, not a buffer concept.

I guess Martin meant to say that column numbering is defined even for
parts of a buffer that are not displayed, or even for buffers that are
not displayed in any window.