Subject: bug#37393: 26.2.90; [PATCH] Speed up 'csv-align-fields'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:23:19 +0300

> From: Simen Heggestøyl <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:53:06 +0200
> 
> > Maybe we could get yet more speedup by making it possible to pass to
> > `current-column` (or a new C function) a start position along with its
> > column, so we'd avoid re-traversing the part of the line that we've
> > already processed.
> 
> I think that sounds like a good idea; then my ugly "fast-current-column"
> patch from last time won't be needed.

Once again, risking to talk about something I don't clearly
understand: vertical-motion already allows you to pass an argument
which tells what is the current column.

Any rationale to use current-column instead of vertical-motion?