When `page-delimiter` starts at the beginning of the line and the position is also at the beginning of the line, calling `forward-page` will skip one page. Running `emacs -Q example.txt`: M-< C-x n p M-> M-1 C-x n p This should bring us from page 1 to page 2, but page 3 gets displayed instead. The attached patch fixes it by changing the code to actually match its surrounding comments. In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.16.2) of 2015-04-20 on bitzer.hoetzel.info Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11701000 System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: `configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' Important settings: value of $LC_MESSAGES: sv_SE.UTF-8 value of $LANG: sv_SE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix -- Pierre Neidhardt Virginia law forbids bathtubs in the house; tubs must be kept in the yard.