On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> I think it's posn-at-point.  Look at what it returns at the leftmost
> position of the 2nd line, and you will see why next-line moves to
> column 2.
>

Interesting. In the leftmost position on line 2, in both scenarios in my
original message, posn-at-point returns:

    (#<window 0x106810050 on *scratch*> 2 (497 . 15) 0 nil 2 (3 . 1) nil (0
. 0) (7 . 15))

I think you're saying the (COL . ROW) value (3 . 1) should be (0 . 2).
Right?

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