* bug#42748: 26.3; Should `move-(beginning|end)-of-line' be in the Elisp manual?
@ 2020-08-07 16:40 Drew Adams
2020-08-08 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Drew Adams @ 2020-08-07 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 42748
(elisp) `Text Lines' documents `(beginning|end)-of-line'. It doesn't
document `move-(beginning|end)-of-line'. The Emacs manual documents
the latter and not the former. Is this the best approach, or did the
Elisp manual perhaps just not get updated when `C-a' and `C-e' were
changed to use the `move-*' commands?
In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362
Configured using:
`configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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* bug#42748: 26.3; Should `move-(beginning|end)-of-line' be in the Elisp manual?
2020-08-07 16:40 bug#42748: 26.3; Should `move-(beginning|end)-of-line' be in the Elisp manual? Drew Adams
@ 2020-08-08 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-09 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2020-08-08 8:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 42748-done
> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 09:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> (elisp) `Text Lines' documents `(beginning|end)-of-line'. It doesn't
> document `move-(beginning|end)-of-line'. The Emacs manual documents
> the latter and not the former. Is this the best approach, or did the
> Elisp manual perhaps just not get updated when `C-a' and `C-e' were
> changed to use the `move-*' commands?
It looks like Lisp programs use beginning-of-line and end-of-line
overwhelmingly more than the move-* counterparts, so it seems like the
discrepancy is actually justified.
So I'm closing this bug report.
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* bug#42748: 26.3; Should `move-(beginning|end)-of-line' be in the Elisp manual?
2020-08-08 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2020-08-09 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2020-08-09 1:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 42748
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> > (elisp) `Text Lines' documents `(beginning|end)-of-line'. It doesn't
> > document `move-(beginning|end)-of-line'. The Emacs manual documents
> > the latter and not the former. Is this the best approach, or did the
> > Elisp manual perhaps just not get updated when `C-a' and `C-e' were
> > changed to use the `move-*' commands?
The difference between the keyboard commands and the basic functions
is intentional. THe basic functions are useful in Lisp programs; the
move- commands are on C-a and C-e but are not worth documenting for
Lisp programs to call.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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