Re: vertical-motion fails when tab in line

[David Reitter]

On 11 Jun 2006, at 10:30, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * David Reitter (2006-06-11) writes:
>
> > To reproduce, take a scratch buffer, enter a few lines of text wich
> > will be wrapped and contain one (or more?) tabs. Place cursor near
> > the end of a wrapped line, but not too far towards the end, and call
> > M-: (vertical-motion 1).
> >
> > Tried this in Aquamacs (based on very recent GNU CVS) and as well
> > with a vanilla CVS build (Carbon port on OS X) with a fixed-width  
> > font.
>
> Unreproducible with
>
> emacs -Q -eval '(progn (insert "\t" (make-string 50 ?x) "\t" (make- 
> string 50 ?x)) (goto-char 85) (vertical-motion 1))'

It won't reproduce with this for me either.

But this one does it:

emacs -Q -eval '(progn (insert "\t" (make-string 50 ?x) " " (make- 
string 50 ?x)) (set-frame-parameter nil (quote width) 60) (goto-char  
54) (vertical-motion 1))'


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
of 2006-05-06 on rodrigues.inf.ed.ac.uk
X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.6
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