From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Searching for line beginning Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:48:30 +0300 Message-ID: <838rnndrap.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831qtkm9ni.fsf@gnu.org> <878rnqq1qr.fsf@tcd.ie> <83pmh2kfaj.fsf@gnu.org> <8735dyhlud.fsf@gnus.org> <83o7wmkeqo.fsf@gnu.org> <87bksmf7vu.fsf@gnus.org> <83lerpiw2e.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8qt91pn.fsf@gnus.org> <837d39iumo.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14575"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 14:11:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oOHt8-0003Vt-Ll for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:11:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55574 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oOHt7-0004YJ-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oOHXR-0003ky-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oOHXQ-0001h0-El; Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:48:44 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Ury+Xj4Mq0+rgUzQtyfVEmopkwq1kLz7jz9PZfy3hac=; b=qaQxI5qjVWJI cZKbb/cium8gV5pvZa6hoccr3CHWkoIIRmNBuiJsX4Wbbz+2TiFJlmxozcTpcj9Ae5G1/bju64Pd4 T3/sb7Ww1zlLz9taBECcPonRMVLdRkqICIQRdn4NBrbb0EjBExOUfHc+AtRhURgX5TE9P+7+Vu69g LL3eDvIoypB+I0jIOX6sBBNS2XLoCLIiV3R8YrnfhSQuxO05A6qXoIYYkfxWHC54mFyUXYmkNNS1I AgFzrrj2twKtn+e24Zvq0Gbj91DKABK9PzfpZ/vOd+Ozn2wXmapnUS7zjkFnfoBIaoaRfvXiNAzce yhXGSHwrNuksLkiuwCLK8w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4822 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oOHXL-0004bD-Jx; Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:48:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:49:26 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:293549 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:49:26 -0400 > > > > If we want to fix this, I think we should just introduce two new > > > functions for "real" bol/eol, because this is already awkward enough. > > > I won't object. > > What would these new functions do? How would they be different from > bolp and eolp? bolp and eolp don't _search_ for next/previous newline, they just report if point already _is_ at or before a newline. The intent is to have a function similar to line-beginning-position, but without the stuff that accounts for fields.