Re: forward 1 (was: Re: indent-buffer)

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

> It seems that `forward-line', `forward-char', `forward-word'
> and `backward-char' now takes 1 as the default, and it also
> seems to be the case that using `backward-char' does no
> longer make the byte-compiler say that the correct way is to
> use (forward-char -1) - which is good, since `backward-char'
> is more idiomatic [...]

So there is a `forward-char' and a `backward-char';
a `forward-word' and a `backward-word'; a `forward-sentence'
and a `backward-sentence'; but while there is
a `forward-line', there isn't a "backward-line", so there one
will still have to use

  (forward-line)    ; advance one line
  (forward-line -1) ; go back one line

with

  (forward-line 0)  ; those who know know

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