From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:37:39 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hnaa4j$1jh9$2@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9be093f9-908c-4759-9c2c-8fad57ad80d2@u19g2000prh.googlegroups.com
In gnu.emacs.help Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> 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)
They'll do different things if point is already at the end of a line.
They'll do different things if a line of text wraps onto two lines on the
screen.
> Thanks.
> Xah
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 8:37 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
2010-03-09 21:38 ` Xah Lee
2010-03-11 8:37 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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