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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

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).