Subject: Re: bug#42748: 26.3; Should `move-(beginning|end)-of-line' be in the Elisp manual?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 11:25:53 +0300

> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 09:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> (elisp) `Text Lines' documents `(beginning|end)-of-line'.  It doesn't
> document `move-(beginning|end)-of-line'.  The Emacs manual documents
> the latter and not the former.  Is this the best approach, or did the
> Elisp manual perhaps just not get updated when `C-a' and `C-e' were
> changed to use the `move-*' commands?

It looks like Lisp programs use beginning-of-line and end-of-line
overwhelmingly more than the move-* counterparts, so it seems like the
discrepancy is actually justified.

So I'm closing this bug report.