Such a simple thing - finding the position of the beginning or end of the current line. I've been completely oblivious to the existence of the functions line-beginning-position and line-end-position.
They return the position of the beginning or end of the current line.
They both accept an optional argument, which has the same
meaning as the argument to beginning-of-line or end-of-line.
They were first introduced in Emacs 20, in the middle of 2006. Which means I've been unnecessarily typing this for 4 years:
(save-excursion
(beginning-of-line)
(point))
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How did I miss that? I have some code which occasionally beeps if I hit a certain key when the cursor is at the beginning of the buffer... I'm tempted to go fix it right now. Thanks.
I always forget about these, but I've started using "apropos" to find things recently, and that pretty much gets rid of the problem.
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