Re: line-move-visual

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Choosing defaults is very difficult indeed.  You can never please
>> everyone.  In this specific case, I'm the main guy to blame: I wrote the
>> original patch for line-move-visual (oddly enough, since it touches
>> parts of the code I still am not at all familiar with), mostly because
>> it seemed it would be important for proper support of word-wrap (which
>> I didn't care for much, but many users cared about it).
> Isn't word-wrap the ideal solution for dealing with the single-line
> paragraphs that you mention in the second bullet point below?

Only for the display part: it doesn't help navigation.

> So, this particular decision doesn't seem to be all that difficult.

Leaving line-move-visual as nil would have been an easy decision to
satisfy old users who already like Emacs.  But setting it to t (without
switching all the way to visual-line-mode) seemed like
a good compromise.

Given the reactions we've seen since Emacs-23.1 was released,
I don't regret the decision.


        Stefan