From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginning-on-line oddness
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:49:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vcbrnxwc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obhj2z3g.fsf@gnus.org>
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:29:07 +0100
>
> Gnus has a mode where it uses that there "ellipsis" thing to hide
> summary lines.
>
> `beginning-of-line' now doesn't move to the beginning of the line, but
> to the beginning of one of the hidden lines, apparently.
>
> So I thought this might do the trick:
>
> (while (not (bolp))
> (forward-line 0))
>
> Nope.
>
> But if I do that, and then do it again, then it works. That is, if I
> let the display loop run a bit, then it gets past the hidden line
> ending. Or something.
>
> The documentation of `beginning-of-line' looks to be written in a
> strange, foreign language that I can't make heads or tails of.
> "Fields"? What's a "field"?
>
> So is this a bug or are we now supposed to replace all our
> `beginning-of-line' calls with something new that makes point go to the
> beginning of the line?
Hard to tell without a simple reproducible recipe. (No, I don't use
Gnus.) Can this be shown in 'emacs -Q"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-24 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-24 16:29 beginning-on-line oddness Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-24 16:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-24 17:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-24 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-24 17:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-25 17:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-26 13:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-26 14:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-26 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-31 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-31 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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