GNU bug report logs - #3438
emacs 23.0.9{,3,4} dired mode bug(?)

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "'T.V. Raman'" <tv.raman.tv <at> gmail.com>,
        "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, <ams <at> gnu.org>,
        <eliz <at> gnu.org>, <stephen <at> xemacs.org>,
        "'Andrew W. Nosenko'" <andrew.w.nosenko <at> gmail.com>,
        <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>, "'ishikawa'" <chiaki.ishikawa <at> ubin.jp>,
        3438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3438: please make line-move-visual nil
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:56:27 -0400

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Please see bug report #3438. All of it is worth reading in this regard.
>
> Note in particular his request to have a buffer-local value for
> line-move-visual, and to have Dired use nil for this.

>> In dired mode, when the cursor is near the beginning of a very long
>> filename (as in near the "AaAaAa..." below , I can't move down to the
>> next file by "n" or "cursor down" key anymore(!).

In Dired, <up> and <down> call dired-previous-line and dired-next-line,
which should not be affected by line-move-visual.  I have not been able
to reproduce the reported problem (i.e., getting point stuck in Dired).
Maybe the reporter has some unusual customizations that are getting in
the way.

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