From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: move-beginning-of-line moves to the very beginning instead of where it should Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 11:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64f37740-edec-4613-9802-4a4ce77ad5af@googlegroups.com> References: <39216306-b47a-4a72-8f4a-f74255c333a1@googlegroups.com> <87r3zp2tof.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410028825 30192 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2014 18:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 18:40:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 20:40:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XQKuH-0003Td-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XQKuH-0001rw-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:40:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.193.227 with SMTP id hr3mr11744296pac.0.1410028721293; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:38:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.50.205 with SMTP id e13mr146780igo.17.1410028721122; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 11:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!r2no15727937igi.0!news-out.google.com!ht4ni0igb.0!nntp.google.com!r2no15727928igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87r3zp2tof.fsf@debian.uxu> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.117.144.130; posting-account=4BQPhQoAAAC2TdlGRjSyQyl2uIZddGX6 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.117.144.130 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 18:38:41 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207398 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99673 Archived-At: On Friday, September 5, 2014 10:40:16 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote: > There are modes to show overflow lines on several lines > on your display. That makes sense... but it can make > for confusion like in your case. Instead of > visual-line-mode you can have auto-fill-mode and then > hopefully beginning-of-line will be a better match with > your (and mine) intuition of it. Thanks Emanuel for the info about visual-line-mode. It doesn't seem to exist in the older emacs (22.2.1) but does exist in 24.3.1. It has an effect if the prompt is more than one visual line long, but control-A still takes you to the very beginning of the line. So, for example, if the prompt is 1.5 lines long, then control-A takes you to the beginning of the visual line, i.e., deep inside the prompt, but on the same line. So . . . i'm all ears for a new function to bind to control-A. But if i had a way of reversing the behavior that would be even better. Why should control-A work properly, and then suddenly stop? (I'm pretty sure i must somehow be clobbering it with some accidental keystrokes, but i sure cannot figure out what they are. :( It typically works for at least a few days before it flips into this misbehaving state.) Thanks for your help! dan