Let cant-next-line.el have file contents: (tool-bar-mode 0) (global-whitespace-mode 1) (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 80) (setq scroll-margin 4) (setq scroll-conservatively 101) Open up the attached cant-next-line.txt by: emacs -Q --load cant-next-line.el cant-next-line.txt Move point to be immediately before the 'h' of "here". Try to reach the '-' character at the end of the file using C-n. You can't. If I move point to the beginning of line containing "here", then I can. I checked emacs-24.3 and could not reproduce this, so it is a regression. I witnessed this with latest trunk 68068a328a854998a0071f4714cbacdfed36fcc1 and for commit 20899d085afe62520113b5acbfe3dbba57823dc9 (Jun 5) which I use day to day (because the commit immediately following broke Evil in a critical way). --- In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4) of 2013-06-18 on psd15 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga) Configured using: `configure --prefix=/redacted/user/boreilly/sw/emacs-install-trunk-20899d085afe62520113b5acbfe3dbba57823dc9 --with-gif=no' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Text Minor modes in effect: global-whitespace-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x r e p o r t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort nadvice gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils disp-table whitespace time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)