Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     However this is supposed to be resolved: it does not appear to
>     make much sense to have both move-end-of-line as well as
>     end-of-line do exactly the same thing, one in Lisp, one in C.
>
> They are not the same; I wrote move-end-of-line because it needs to
> be different.  It was to fix a bug.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't remember what the difference is.

Neither do the doc strings remember the difference.  And that means
that whatever bug you fixed by introducing the difference is bound to
be repeated by others, since there is no way to guess which of the two
functions is supposed to be used for what purpose.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum