From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xraysmalevich@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cursor movement question Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3554eed9-706e-4757-ad31-c2dd0d225588@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <8b420801-d894-4f7b-b040-c803ec8a62ff@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216244767 27082 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 21:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:46:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 16 23:46:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJEpe-000231-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:46:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39146 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJEol-0007Sb-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:45:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.183.178.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216224667 29811 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2008 16:11:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.183.178.159; posting-account=GWRmcQoAAAByQPzrR7mhf5cbvIm17KAJ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PROXY1 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160294 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:43:38 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55653 Archived-At: On Jul 16, 10:45 am, aspirinjunky wrote: > hi, > > is there a way to move the cursor straight up or down regardless of > whether or not the previous or next line extends to that point, rather > than having the cursor jump to the end of the line if it is shorter? > > This probably sounds trivial, but it was a nice feature in brief > because it made it was easier on "these old eyes", as well as when > trying to line up columns when making rectangles. > > thanks, > > d... some more discussions (and possible solutions) at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/082ec22d28c7839d/fba3f7001019ad66