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bug#17511: 24.4.50; `line-move-ignore-invisible': doc and purpose not cl
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Drew Adams |
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bug#17511: 24.4.50; `line-move-ignore-invisible': doc and purpose not clear |
Date: |
Sat, 17 May 2014 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) |
> OK, I removed the empty line.
Thx. Maybe it would be good to decide on the convention to use and
document it in the guidelines. Just a suggestion.
> I see no reason to mention invisible lines, because that might be
> confusing: what matters are not the lines, but the newlines.
> Therefore, the doc string now only talks about newlines, and the
> manual now says:
>
> Ordinarily, functions that operate on text or move point do not care
> whether the text is invisible, they process invisible characters and
> visible characters alike. The user-level line motion commands,
> such as @code{next-line}, @code{previous-line}, ignore invisible
> newlines if @code{line-move-ignore-invisible} is non-@code{nil} (the
> default), i.e., behave like these invisible newlines didn't exist in
> the buffer, but only because they are explicitly programmed to do so.
Looks good. I will close the bug.