Emacs: why is the cursor position less than the expected value?

Question

Suppose I have a source file that is 18218 bytes.

I open the file in emacs and then do:

 M-x end-of-buffer
 M-x what-cursor-position

Why does the cursor position return 17612 bytes?

I think this is due to translating CRLF or dropping CRLF to a single character.

How can I get emacs to report the exact, untranslated character position?

Answer 1

The behavior you described is mentioned in manual . None of the ways to get a “true” position is mentioned, which makes me think that you're out of luck.

- , : C-x RET c no-conversion RET C-x C-f filename. .

Answer 2

, find-file-literally Emacs CR LF " ".

Answer 3

Perhaps a non-interactive function (dot) is what you need. I did not notice such discrepancies about it, but again - I did not pay much attention to such details ...