{"id":7164,"date":"2018-05-01T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2018-05-01T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:25:36","slug":"what-cursor-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7164","title":{"rendered":"What Cursor Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> You may or may not know about <code>what-cursor-position<\/code> (bound to <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>x<\/kbd> <kbd>=<\/kbd>) that displays the current position of the point in the echo area. It&rsquo;s probably not too useful if you have the row and column displayed in the mode line although it does give additional information. <\/p>\n<p> Wilfred Hughes&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ecotd\">Emacs Command of the Day<\/a> offers a handy tip about it: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">C-u C-x = calls what-cursor-position with a prefix argument. This shows *Help* with lots of information about the current character.<\/p>\n<p>Great for identifying the unicode character at point! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYslMQPxRY\">pic.twitter.com\/LYslMQPxRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u24ba Command of the Day (@ecotd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ecotd\/status\/988908767898107906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p> All that information is the same as what you get with <code>describe-char<\/code> but it&rsquo;s conveniently bound to a shortcut, which <code>decribe-char<\/code> isn&rsquo;t by default. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may or may not know about what-cursor-position (bound to Ctrl+x =) that displays the current position of the point in the echo area. It&rsquo;s probably not too useful if you have the row and column displayed in the mode &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}