Re: Visual line movement inconsistency

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Hi Miles,
> 
>>> But is this inconsistent behavior of C-n/C-p and C-a/C-e really the
>>> intended default?  I think it would be better if C-a/C-e respected
>>> the value of `line-move-visual', too.  Then the default would be like
>>> visual-line-mode without word-wrapping.
>> It was discussed and the current behavior seemed to be the consensus
>> choice.
>>
>> I agree that it can be confusing, but I think it's much more dangerous
>> to change the default behavior of C-a/C-e, because people depend a lot
>> more on their precise behavior
> 
> I see.  But at least there should be some way to move to the
> beginning/end of a visual line.  Maybe an option or simply some new
> binding.


I have been using something like this for a while

(defun ourcomments-move-beginning-of-line(arg)
  "Move point to beginning of line or indentation.
See `beginning-of-line' for ARG.

If `physical-line-mode' is on then the visual line beginning is
first tried."
  (interactive "p")
  (let ((pos (point)))
    (call-interactively 'beginning-of-line arg)
    (when (= pos (point))
      (if (= 0 (current-column))
          (skip-chars-forward " \t")
        (backward-char)
        (beginning-of-line)))))
(put 'ourcomments-move-beginning-of-line 'CUA 'move)