Re: line-move-visual

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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.
>
> I did give you the answer: I tried it and found to my surprise that I
> liked it, so I suggested it and people said "no way", then they tried
> it and some people hated it, while others really liked it.
>
> So in the end it was a judgment call, and I decided that the added
> convenience of being able to deal with very-long-lines without having
> to change mode was more important.  I.e. I decided that case 3 (in my
> earlier long post about it) was less common and less important.

I should think that changing to logical mode when recording and
replaying macros would be an improvement.  I can't imagine anybody
wanting visual mode in that case.

There is already one such change: vertical movement does not use vscroll
in order to go smoothly through vertical material when macro recording
or playback is active.

-- 
David Kastrup