From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85y83dleho.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85acfpc8dv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133211953 22470 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 21:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 22:05:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egq8l-0004HN-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:02:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egq8j-0004XT-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Egq81-0004Ms-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Egq7y-0004MD-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egq7y-0004M2-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Egq7x-0004lQ-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Egq7w-0000mY-HQ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:01:32 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85acfpc8dv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:35:40 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46725 Archived-At: 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. Yes, I should have written a comment to explain. Can you find any message I posted about it? If so, maybe we can see the bug report I was dealing with, and thus figure out the point.