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Re: Searching for line beginning
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Searching for line beginning |
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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:20:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii [2022-08-13 18:43:29] wrote:
> C-a (move-beginning-of-line) does this to find the line's beginning:
>
> ;; Move to beginning-of-line, ignoring fields and invisible text.
> (skip-chars-backward "^\n")
> (while (and (not (bobp)) (invisible-p (1- (point))))
> (goto-char (previous-char-property-change (point)))
> (skip-chars-backward "^\n"))
>
> Apart of the fields part (which can be handled by binding
> inhibit-field-text-motion), can anyone see a reason why not use
> line-beginning-position instead? The latter is much faster,
> especially when lines are very long.
You mean instead of `skip-chars-backward`? I can't see a reason, no.
Stefan
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