From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35647: Documentation and implementation of (move-to-column t) differ. Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:04:19 +0300 Message-ID: <837eazhggs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190509104850.GA11178@ACM> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="245157"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 35647@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 16:20:20 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjuC-0011Sl-L3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 16:20:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjfb-0006fU-Gp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjfV-0006fO-R3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjfT-0005O0-Sg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjfS-0005MT-No for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjfS-0003ck-B8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:05:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 14:05:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35647 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35647-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35647.155741068113902 (code B ref 35647); Thu, 09 May 2019 14:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35647) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 May 2019 14:04:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36004 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjf7-0003cA-H6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41763) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjf2-0003bu-GY for 35647@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:04:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjew-0004o2-Kh; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2638 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hOjev-000405-8t; Thu, 09 May 2019 10:04:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190509104850.GA11178@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 9 May 2019 10:48:50 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:158987 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 10:48:50 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > What the code in Fmove_to_column actually does is to delete the tab, > insert enough spaces to get to column , then calls Findent_to to > finish the indentation to . Findent_to uses a tab when > indent-tabs-mode is non-nil. > > My feeling here is that the documentation rather than the code should be > amended. To amend the code would make it more difficult for > uncomment-region to restore a tab character which has been earlier > manipulated by comment-region. (See also bug #35600.) Would you mind preparing a documentation patch for this issue? Thanks.