From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cursor movement question Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8b420801-d894-4f7b-b040-c803ec8a62ff@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <3554eed9-706e-4757-ad31-c2dd0d225588@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216248049 4705 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 22:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 00:41:37 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 1KJFgj-0003Ct-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFfr-0007JW-H5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.32.85.139 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216247906 3098 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2008 22:38:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.32.85.139; posting-account=7GrjgQoAAAD6slWURausdJnhFDkmQYC8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 stargate.datacom:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE5) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160310 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:55660 Archived-At: On Jul 16, 1:11=A0pm, xraysmalev...@gmail.com wrote: > 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) athttp://groups.google.co.= uk/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/082e... Maybe set-goal-column (C-x C-n) also helps with your problem. Use C-u C-x C-n when done. HTH, ugo