Re: [kobayays@otsukakj.co.jp: vertical-motion]

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Would someone please DTRT and ack?
>>
>> From: KOBAYASHI Yasuhiro <kobayays@otsukakj.co.jp>
>> Subject: vertical-motion
>> To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:13:30 +0900
>>
>> It seems that vertical-motion is not right in the case which
>> some propertized texts are included in the line.
>
> I want to add that navigating across large images has become a
> completely unworking mess in the last year.  No combination of
> forward-line and scroll-down by now makes it possible to reliably move
> across such an item (either direction), and it is very unpredictable
> what will happen at all.  A year ago, Emacs 22 was on a good track.

Can you point to some changes which made things worse?

> The last bug reports I sent in were basically met with "this is not
> going to get fixed before the release".

I would like to fix it ... but this is not trivial, and I've yet to 
find a good way to do it (which doesn't break a lot of other code).

> Very frustrating, since we had stuff that worked almost perfectly in
> that regard one year ago.  Now the situation appears at least as bad
> as in Emacs 21.

I share your frustration.

Do forward-char / backward-char work better in these cases??

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