Re: Column-number-mode ordinality question

[Smith_RS]

Andreas,

Thanks, but I tried directly hacking bindings.el, re-compiling
the .elc, and it didn't change anything.

Is there something special about 23.1 for Windows?  Is there some sort
of weird caching going on?



On Apr 15, 5:06 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> Smith_RS <rsmit...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I know that historically RMS was against this, but is there any way in
> > 23.1 to change the behavior of column-number-mode so that it begins
> > with 1 and not 0?
>
> > Under Linux I can just change the code in xdisp.c, but I'm doing more
> > work with Windows these days.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> I suppose, you could change the
>
> (propertize ... "(%l,%c)" parts in
>
> `mode-line-position' to something like
>
> ...
> (column-number-mode
>  (10 (:eval
>       (propertize
>        (format " (%l,%d)" (1+ (current-column)))
>        'local-map mode-line-column-line-number-mode-map
>        'mouse-face 'mode-line-highlight
>        'help-echo "Line number and Column number\n\
> mouse-1: Display Line and Column Mode Menu")))
>  ...
>
>  -ap