From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:38:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b7703fe-f901-40ca-84e5-dda8b2e7165c@m27g2000prl.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hn6avm$77e$1@north.jnrs.ja.net
On Mar 9, 12:27 pm, Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTre...@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > There's the move-end-of-line function. The source code and doc seems a
> > bit complicated.
>
> > my question is, what's the difference if i just call
>
> > (search-forward "\n")
> > (backward-char 1)
> I think (end-of-line 1) is the preferred way of going to the end of line.
> move-end-of-line is an interactive command and it has to take care
> of various stuff.
Thanks. good answer.
> Your alternative might not work in a CRLF line-ending format or if
> there is no newline at the end of the buffer.
this shouldn't matter though because in buffer, newline char is always
represented by "\n". End of buffer problem is a good one still, i
think.
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-09 17:01 move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char? Xah Lee
2010-03-09 20:27 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-09 21:38 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2010-03-11 8:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
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