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Re: please make line-move-visual nil
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: please make line-move-visual nil |
Date: |
Sat, 16 May 2009 23:53:05 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
> I don't see anything bizarre and extreme about this change, but as a
> minor point I wish this change had been made by rebinding C-n to a [new?]
> command `next-visual-line'. It used to be that "line" meant the text
> between two \n's, and now its definition has become vague and mushy.
There's already been such a distinction between next-line and
forward-line. The "text between two \n" has always been associated with
forward-line, whereas next-line was used for a mroe visually-oriented
notion of line (e.g. it skips invisible text, even if it contains \n).
For this reason, most (not all, of course) uses of next-line in Elisp is
a bug. And for this reason as well, I don't think there's a strong
motivation to introduce yet-another line-movement command.
Stefan
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, (continued)
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, David Reitter, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, David Reitter, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Stephen Berman, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Miles Bader, 2009/05/15
- RE: please make line-move-visual nil, Drew Adams, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Stephen Berman, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Miles Bader, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/16
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil,
Stefan Monnier <=