bug#13273: 24.3.50; [PATCH] enhancement request: repeatable `visual-line-mode' line movements

[Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>]

May I also suggest yet a another user pattern: in visual line mode, on
repeated invocation move to next _logical_ line. That is, C-a moves to
beginning of visual line, but C-a C-a moves to the beginning of logical
line. May be it could be an user option, something like
repeated-line-movement-pattern.


  >> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
  >> on Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:32:26 -0800 wrote:

  >> > >    * `home' - `beginning-of-line'
  >> > >    * `end'  - `end-of-line'
  >> > >    * `C-a'  - `beginning-of-visual-line'
  >> > >    * `C-e'  - `end-of-visual-line'
  >> > 
  >> > I think it would be better the other way around: leave C-a and C-e
  >> > move by physical lines, and make Home and End move by visual lines,
  >> > which I think is consistent with other applications.
  >> 
  >> OK, go for it, please.  Doesn't matter to me either way.  I 
  >> was thinking of `home' and `end' as being the stronger, more 
  >> distant movements, based on their names and based on (I guess 
  >> misunderstanding) some of the discussion in emacs-devel.  I 
  >> am certainly no expert on what the "standard"/"conventional" 
  >> meanings are.

  > However, I wonder what most Emacs users would really prefer.

  > To be clear, I don't use visual line mode, and I have no preference regarding
  > it.

  > But I would imagine that:

  > 1. It is more common in visual line mode to want to move incrementally up/down
  > visual line bols/eols than it is to move incrementatlly up/down logical line
  > bols/eols.

Indeed this is the case, otherwise why would you need visual-line-mode
in the first place? With wrapping at window edge (aka truncate-lines set
to nil) C-a and C-e move according to logical lines. If also in
visual-line-mode C-a/C-e would start moving on logical lines, that would
make these two modes highly redundant.


    Vitalie