GNU bug report logs - #11053
batch mode line motion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 11266

Found in version 24.0.94

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 11053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: Re: bug#11053: 24.0.94;
	When run with --batch, Emacs seems to start with point on the second
	line of the given file
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:55:59 -0400

> The visual line motion commands won't work in batch mode, because the
> screen size is not defined in batch mode.  I changed line-move to use
> forward-line in batch mode, which is as good an approximation as we are
> likely to get.

Wouldn't it be better to change the motion commands instead?


        Stefan
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