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From: Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char?
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:27:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hn6avm$77e$1@north.jnrs.ja.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9be093f9-908c-4759-9c2c-8fad57ad80d2@u19g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

Xah Lee wrote:
> 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)

I think (end-of-line 1) is the preferred way of going to the end of line.

move-end-of-line is an interactive command and it has to take care of various stuff.   Your alternative might not work in a CRLF line-ending format or if there is no newline at the end of the buffer.

Cheers,
Uday
 


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-09 17:01 move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char? Xah Lee
2010-03-09 20:27 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-03-09 21:38   ` Xah Lee
2010-03-11  8:37 ` Alan Mackenzie

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