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25.1.50; Cursor motion error with visual-line-mode

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>, 23570-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23570: 25.1.50; Cursor motion error with visual-line-mode
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 23:49:10 -0700

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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> FWIW, I think the fix ought to be considered for the emacs-25 branch, since
>> (i) it is a regression relative to Emacs 24.4, and (ii) it is quite simple
>> to trigger on natural-language text with long lines, which should be
>> considered a common use-case.

> I considered that, but since the release is imminent, I was uneasy to put
> such low-level changes in basic functionality in the release.

> John, would you please provide a second opinion here?

This should wait for 25.2. It's a cursor motion error, not data loss, and
these sorts of low-level changes are too much at this point.

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