what-cursor-coordinates give wrong position

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From: Jerry
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:35

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Doug Puchalsi on September 28 wrote:
-> Also, the motion.el file shows coordinates upon a mouse click. However,
-> the row seems to be relative to the top of the screen.  How can I get
-> it to give me the true line number too?

Here's a drop in replacement for the posted what-cursor-coordinates in
the new motion.el.  This gives true cursor coordinates.  It is also
faster.  I find the strings more helpful than a coordinate pair.
Season to taste.

-Jerry

---------------- real what-cursor-coordinates ----------------
(defun what-cursor-coordinates ()
  "Print line and column number of the cursor."
  (interactive)
  (if mouse-show-position
      (if (not (eq (nth 2 arg) (minibuffer-window)))
	  ;; Don't display if cursor is in the minibuffer.
;;    (setq mode-line-process (format " %d, %d"  ;; Alternative to message
	  (message "Line: %d   Column: %d"
		   (if (bolp) (+ 1 (count-lines 1 (point)))(count-lines 1 (point)))
		   (+ 1 (current-column))))))

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