Re: How to go to next line on the screen instead of going to next line in the text?

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

xz wrote:
> In emacs, if you hit the down arrow key, the cursor will go to next
> line in the text, i.e., the part after the first next '\n'.
> 
> However, sometimes when the line is long and is wrapped into several
> lines on the screen, I wanna move between the screen lines, instead of
> the text lines, just like what happens when you hit the down arrow key
> in gedit or the notepad in Windows.
> 
> How to do that?

The best way I know is to use isearch (C-s) for two or three characters 
before the one you want the cursor moved to and then isearch-exit which 
I have bound to M-s. (I use a Dvorak layout so you may want to bind to 
some other keychord) M-s is center-line in textmode but this is 
overridden in the context of isearch.

Ed