On 11 Jul 2008, at 00:36, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> This said, I find that visual-line movement works well *all the time*
>> (literally).  I've never felt like turning it off and the few times  
>> I've
>> bumped into it unexpectedly, I was positively surprised.
>>
>> OTOH, I don't think I'd like C-k to work on visual lines (I know I  
>> hate
>> this behavior in Firefox), so maybe we should distinguish the
>> screen-line movements (which I could even consider turning on by
>> default) from other screen-line operations.
>
> I agree that it would be good to make this the default, if it works as
> well as you say.
>  The visual editing mode, probably based on David
> Reitter's code in some modified form, can go on top of it (like
> longlines mode, I think it is useful for editing certain types of  
> text,
> though not all.)  We need to make it work properly with point-motion
> hooks, though.  Would you like to do that?


OK, do I understand you right? Basic movement commands (when  
interactive) on by default as per Stefan's method (which I agree is  
better given the new feature of vertical-motion), and C-a/C-e/C-k in a  
minor mode as per my code.