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Re: port-line and port-column

Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

> Assuming this is intentional,

It is intentional.

> it should be documented in the manual.

Yes.

> 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.

We should correct the *error messages* to comply with this standard.

> Also, I noticed that before the first read-char, the port-line
> is #f.  I assume this is a bug.

It is a bug.

/mdj