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Re: please make line-move-visual nil
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: please make line-move-visual nil |
Date: |
Thu, 14 May 2009 22:45:21 -0400 |
> Another weirdness when this is turned on is what happens when you
> do C-u 25 C-n (go down 25 lines). This goes down a variable
> number of (real) lines now, depending on your emacs's screen
> width! A little odd, no? Maybe it's not, and I'm just old and
> stuck in my ways.
I find this odd as well.
Obviously your logic is valid too. It's just that computer users
tend to navigate visually on the screen-buffer. Machines, such as
Emacs Lisp code, navigates on file-buffer (usually).
There are alot of statements to the effect that new users will find
line-move-visual more intuitive, and some new users have stated that
they do find it more intuitive, likewise some old time users have
stated the opposite. But has anyone actually done a poll on it or
anything similar to that?
I really think that this change should wait to after 23, and 23 should
leave line-move-visual as nil.
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, garyo, 2009/05/13
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Deniz Dogan, 2009/05/13
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, garyo, 2009/05/13
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Teemu Likonen, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Antoine Levitt, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Lennart Borgman, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/05/17
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, garyo, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Teemu Likonen, 2009/05/14
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Davis Herring, 2009/05/15
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/05/17
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/17
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Davis Herring, 2009/05/17
- RE: please make line-move-visual nil, Drew Adams, 2009/05/24
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Bastien, 2009/05/24
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Leo, 2009/05/24
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Chong Yidong, 2009/05/24
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Lennart Borgman, 2009/05/24
- Re: please make line-move-visual nil, Miles Bader, 2009/05/25