I think line-move-visual is great for common usage. It seems to me the problem of users with this new setting is mainly in keyboard macros. Why not disable line-move-visual when typing or replaying a keyboard macro, since in most case the user want the action to be independent of the line it is on ? Kind of a hack, but there's clearly two usages of the line move commands here.
On 2009-05-13 17:06 (-0700), garyo wrote:> years [...]
> Good point, it's important to attract new users, but there are already
> so many ways Emacs differs from any other editor that I'm not sure
> it's worth breaking existing keyboard macros that have worked for
Hmm, does somebody really expect keyboard macros to work reliably over
years? (Even if they may have worked in some cases.) Well, I have used
Emacs less than year but I see macros more like temporary helpers.
I'll have line-move-visual turned on from the day I upgrade to Emacs 23,
regardless of the default. I think it's the normal behavior in text
editors and pretty much in all text editing and thus it's sensible
default. Long-timers with their years-old keyboard macros do know how to
deal with Emacs configuration.