From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: move-beginning-of-line moves to the very beginning instead of where it should Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:24:09 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8738c3gugm.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <39216306-b47a-4a72-8f4a-f74255c333a1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410114327 18774 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2014 18:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:25:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 20:25:20 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 1XQh9L-0006BA-6j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39251 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XQh9K-0004rs-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:25:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:O/5HFMgPyS5BgP6RaE3UvYFmA6Q= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207405 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:99680 Archived-At: Though visual-line-mode can be practical sometimes, I recommend auto-fill-mode or a version thereof. That fills paragraphs as you type. Only, sometimes when you edit stuff (after you have written a paragraph) you have to (re)fill manually, with M-q (unless the edit was an append). But if you practice your thinking/spelling/typing skills you more and more seldom have to do that. The rare cases when you do have to do it manually are a good barter for the big advantage of having the file look as it does data-wise on you display. C-a isn't the same everywhere even so. In the message-mode, it is message-beginning-of-line which has to do with the header section of an email where C-a sensibly isn't the beginning of the header, but the beginning of the header data. Here is a cool DWIM version for writers of code. (He who wrote it must be a real hacker himself.) (defun back-to-dwim () (interactive) (let ((point (point))) (back-to-indentation) (if (= point (point)) (move-beginning-of-line nil) ))) ; ARG (nil = this line) It seems the C-a in message-mode works the same way: place point anywhere on a header line to the right of the comma, and hit `C-a C-a'! Interestingly for this issue the defun uses move-beginning-of-line which docstring says it acts on displayed lines, so that should (?) get "filled text C-a behavior" for visual-line-mode broken lines - feel free to try that, and report back what happened! -- underground experts united