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Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:35 +0200 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:35:40 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > However this is supposed to be resolved: it does not appear to
> > make much sense to have both move-end-of-line as well as
> > end-of-line do exactly the same thing, one in Lisp, one in C.
> >
> > They are not the same; I wrote move-end-of-line because it needs to
> > be different. It was to fix a bug.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't remember what the difference is.
>
> Neither do the doc strings remember the difference. And that means
> that whatever bug you fixed by introducing the difference is bound to
> be repeated by others, since there is no way to guess which of the two
> functions is supposed to be used for what purpose.
There _is_ a way, albeit not an easy one: one could look at
emacs-devel archives around the time this change was committed, and
try to find the discussion which led to the change.
- Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, David Kastrup, 2005/11/24
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/27
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, David Kastrup, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Lőrentey Károly, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Lőrentey Károly, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, David Kastrup, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Lőrentey Károly, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, David Kastrup, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Lőrentey Károly, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, David Kastrup, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Lőrentey Károly, 2005/11/28
- Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/28