From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: line-move-visual?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:12:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6271f663-7bc2-46fd-8676-105a09b4aa55@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1833.1224707092.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Oct 22, 1:24 pm, Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It looks the change that C-n and C-p now move by screen lines are pretty
> big. Any idea why this has been set as default? What's the user case for
> this?
Do you mean to say that in the dev version of emacs, now up/down arrow
key moves the cursor by a screen line instead of moving by EOL char?
Hurray! One critical emacs modernization down, few more to go!
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
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as answer to your question, moving by screen line is more natural, and
is the behavior by all modern software. I don't know if this is how
emacs developers felt when the change is made, but probably similar.
the moving by screen line is a frequently requested feature, poping up
every couple of months in gnu.emacs.help or comp.emacs.
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btw, what's the behavior of kill-line? Does it do screen line or EOL
line?
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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2008-10-22 21:12 ` Xah [this message]
2008-10-23 2:58 ` line-move-visual? Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-23 10:46 ` line-move-visual? Tassilo Horn
2008-10-22 20:24 line-move-visual? Leo
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