From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85y83dleho.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85acfpc8dv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133207677 6020 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 19:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 20:54:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egp3S-0005u7-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:52:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egp3R-0004hw-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:52:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Egp3E-0004hn-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Egp3E-0004hZ-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Egp3E-0004hW-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Egp3C-0003Mb-TE; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:52:35 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-158-137.inter.net.il [80.230.158.137]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id CAX22988 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:29 +0200 (IST) 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:46715 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:35:40 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > "Richard M. Stallman" 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. There _is_ a way, albeit not an easy one: one could look at emacs-devel archives around the time this change was committed, and try to find the discussion which led to the change.