Re: line-move-visual

[Uday S Reddy]

On 6/15/2010 7:54 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> Well, C-f C-n is all you need.  I mean, keep C-f pressed until the
> cursor reaches the column you want, you don't even need to count
> 76.  And keep C-n pressed until the cursor reaches the line you want.

Except that pressing control-key for that long with your pinky is a health risk!

But I feel this discussion is tangential.  Most of us accept that visual line 
movement is a /good/ idea and we find it useful in lots of contexts.  We are 
grateful for Stefan & co for thinking of it and implementing it.

The question is really whether it should have been made the default.

Every time I narrowed down to that issue in this thread, the participants have 
fallen silent (first Xah Lee then Tim Cross, Alan Mackenzie and Stefan 
himself).  I guess there is no good answer to it.

There is no need for us to beat a dead horse.  If the developers accept that it 
is a bad idea to introduce backward-incompatible changes for flimsy reasons, 
Emacs will be a more useful system for all of us than it currently is.

Fortunately, nothing major is going to fall apart as a result of `next-line' 
changing its meaning.  But I hope that we can arrest this trend right here so 
that we don't have to put up with more pain in future.

Cheers,
Uday