Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     There is an Elisp library that switches the line-based movement key
>     sequences to appropriately modified commands.  I think that most other
>     stuff would not be minded by the user.
>
> I'd like to see people report on how they like this.
> (Which library is it?)

I think it is called screen-lines.el.  Looking for it turned up
<URL:http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/screen-lines.el>,
and this says:

;;; screen-lines.el --- a minor mode for screen-line-based point motion

;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
;; Yuji 'bmonkey' Minejima <address@hidden>

;; Filename:      screen-lines.el
;; Author:        Yuji Minejima <address@hidden>
;; Keywords:      convenience
;; Description:   a minor mode for screen-line-based point motion
;; Compatibility: GNU Emacs 20.7.2, XEmacs 21.1.12
;; URL: http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/screen-lines.el
;; $Revision: 0.55 $

;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.

[...]

;; This package contains part of the code and the documentation of the
;; following packages:
;;
;;   simple.el --- basic editing commands for Emacs
;;   Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999
;;   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;
;;   window-lines.el --- basic cursor moving commands based on window lines
;;   Copyright (C) 1990 enami tsugutomo (address@hidden)
;;
;; All of these are distributed under GPL.

[...]

So it would appear that there is also window-lines.el (no idea whether
that works at all nowadays).

It is not too infrequent for people to ask for this functionality on
the Emacs help list and get referred to screen-lines.el IIRC.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum