I think line-move-visual is great for common usage. It seems to me the
problem of users with this new setting is mainly in keyboard macros. Why not
disable line-move-visual when typing or replaying a keyboard macro, since in
most case the user want the action to be independent of the line it is on ?
Kind of a hack, but there's clearly two usages of the line move commands
here.
2009/5/14 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>

> On 2009-05-13 17:06 (-0700), garyo wrote:
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> > Good point, it's important to attract new users, but there are already
> > so many ways Emacs differs from any other editor that I'm not sure
> > it's worth breaking existing keyboard macros that have worked for
> > years [...]
>
> Hmm, does somebody really expect keyboard macros to work reliably over
> years? (Even if they may have worked in some cases.) Well, I have used
> Emacs less than year but I see macros more like temporary helpers.
>
> I'll have line-move-visual turned on from the day I upgrade to Emacs 23,
> regardless of the default. I think it's the normal behavior in text
> editors and pretty much in all text editing and thus it's sensible
> default. Long-timers with their years-old keyboard macros do know how to
> deal with Emacs configuration.
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