From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
raman@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line-move-visual never set to nil?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:08:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wvn2g0y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvej5f2gja.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:59:56 -0400")
>> Especially novice users will be confused by this defaulting to nil.
> We shouldn't place special emphasis on novices, but I think that it's
> generally a better default, indeed. As a matter of fact, the OP's
> request wasn't really complaining about this default, but about the fact
> that he expected visual-line-mode to affect it. Maybe the docstring
> should refer to line-move-visual to clear the confusion.
Another solution is to merge the two variables into a single 3-state option.
That would clear up the confusion much more effectively.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 17:43 line-move-visual never set to nil? T. V. Raman
2008-07-26 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-26 18:40 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2008-07-26 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-26 18:48 ` David Reitter
2008-07-26 18:57 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-26 19:38 ` T. V. Raman
2008-07-26 19:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-27 18:46 ` David Reitter
2008-07-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-07-28 0:23 ` T. V. Raman
2008-07-29 7:43 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-07-29 14:34 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 14:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-07-29 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-29 18:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 18:37 ` David Reitter
2008-07-29 19:18 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 19:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-29 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-29 21:23 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-30 0:31 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-30 0:42 ` David Reitter
2008-07-30 3:46 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-30 4:43 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-30 4:56 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-30 7:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-31 17:24 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-31 23:34 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-31 23:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 0:25 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01 0:27 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01 0:29 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 0:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01 1:01 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 1:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01 8:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 18:19 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01 19:06 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-01 19:29 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 0:33 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-01 0:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 0:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-01 0:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 10:16 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-08-01 4:43 ` Richard M Stallman
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