bug#971: 23.0.60; next-line, previous-line and goal-column

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> When goal-column has a value larger than the window width, next line
> and previous-line behave oddly. Visit file foo.txt, choose a window
> width of, say, 40, and set goal-column to 50. If initially point is
> at the beginning of line, next-line and previous-line put point in a
> column smaller than goal-column. Executing next-line again puts
> point at the end of the line past goal-column.  

I can verify that this bug still exists in Emacs 24.

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