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Re: port-line and port-column

> 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