From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char? Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:01:34 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9be093f9-908c-4759-9c2c-8fad57ad80d2@u19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273053404 17293 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 09:56:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:56:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 11:56:43 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9bLP-00013F-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 11:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9bLO-00073a-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 05:56:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u19g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268154094 11021 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2010 17:01:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u19g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177417 comp.emacs:99658 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:45:33 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73336 Archived-At: There's the move-end-of-line function. The source code and doc seems a bit complicated. my question is, what's the difference if i just call (search-forward "\n") (backward-char 1) Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84