Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line

[lorentey@elte.hu (Lőrentey Károly)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     `move-beginning-of-line' is similarly broken, but only if the field
>     property isn't front-sticky.  Otherwise both `beginning-of-line' and
>     `move-beginning-of-line' stop at the field boundary, and they stay
>     there if repeated.
>
> If move-beginning-of-line stops at a field beginning, I think that is
> a bug.  Would you like to investigate it?

Sure, we just need to remove the call to constrain-to-field in its
definition.  However, I would argue it's not a bug, but an important
feature: when I use an editable field, I have come to expect C-a to
jump back only to the beginning of the field, not all the way back to
the first column.  This is especially useful in a customize buffer.

Note that the original `beginning-of-line' also stops at field
boundaries.

(By symmetry, I also expect C-e to stop at the end of the field, but
despite the docstring of `move-end-of-line' that doesn't happen.)

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Károly