GNU bug report logs - #3396
next-line and previous-line do not work correctly near long lines

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Shannon Jones" <cz2s20d02 <at> sneakemail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:20:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 3396 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Shannon Jones <cz2s20d02 <at> sneakemail.com>, 3396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3396: next-line and previous-line do not work correctly near
 long lines
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:58:15 +0800

Shannon Jones wrote:
> Hit C-p. This *should* put the cursor at the beginning of the line of X's.  Instead, it puts the cursor at the left column on the screen, but somewhere in the middle of the line of X's.

This is intentional, see etc/NEWS under the heading "Editing Changes in 
Emacs 23.1".


> This is different from Emacs 22.  I noticed this when writing macros that do something to one line, then move to the next line at the end macro to prepare for the next run.  The macro failed on lines that were longer than my screen width.
>   

The effect of this change on keyboard macros is currently being 
discussed on emacs-devel.
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