GNU bug report logs - #6875
Strange behaviour when moving cursor between lines

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: James Battat <jbattat <at> MIT.EDU>
Cc: 6875-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6875: Strange behaviour when moving cursor between lines
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:02:14 +0300

> From: James Battat <jbattat <at> MIT.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:19:20 -0400
> Cc: 
> 
> On my mac, when I open a file in emacs and navigate to the next line using CTRL-n, the cursor does not go to the next line of text, instead, it goes to the next row of text as displayed on the screen.  For lines of text that do not wrap, there is no difference between these two behaviours, but for wrapped lines, there is.

This is a feature.  See this entry in NEWS:

    ** The C-n and C-p line-motion commands now move by screen lines,
    taking continued lines and variable-width characters into account.
    Setting `line-move-visual' to nil reverts this to the previous
    behavior (i.e., motion by logical lines based on buffer contents
    alone).

I'm closing this bug report.

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