Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think someone said Kim has already implemented the change at the
>> display level.  I would like to see as many users as possible report
>> on trying that feature together with screen-lines or window-lines.
>> This is for deciding what to do after the coming release.
>
> I'm not sure my patches will apply cleanly these days, and I don't
> have time to look at them now.
>
> If we install them (or something similar), I think we should modify
> the primitives like next-line and previous-line to do the right thing
> (whatever that is) in those cases.

I don't think we should modify those in order not to cause trouble
where they are used programmatically.  Either we add an optional
argument SCREEN-LINES to them which the interactive form sets to t, or
we create separate next-screen-line and previous-screen-line macros
that can be bound to the keys in question.  It is conceivable that we
would do this just in longlines-mode or similar modes.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum