Re: Something is rotten with end-of-line and move-end-of-line

[Richard M. Stallman]

    The difference (a difference?) is inside fields:
    `{beginning,end}-of-line' moves to the beginning/end of the field,
    while `move-{beginning,end}-of-line' stops at the field boundaries:

I am not sure of the difference between "beginning/end of the field"
and "stops at the field boundaries".  Could you explain the
difference in different words?

    Sorry, I meant `move-{beginning,end}-of-line' goes to the actual line ends.

Oh, that makes sense.

So I think this should explain the difference.


*** simple.el   28 Nov 2005 16:42:47 -0500      1.774
--- simple.el   28 Nov 2005 17:04:06 -0500      
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*** 3644,3655 ****
    "Move point to end of current line.
  With argument ARG not nil or 1, move forward ARG - 1 lines first.
  If point reaches the beginning or end of buffer, it stops there.
! To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t.
! 
! This command does not move point across a field boundary unless doing so
! would move beyond there to a different line; if ARG is nil or 1, and
! point starts at a field boundary, point does not move.  To ignore field
! boundaries bind `inhibit-field-text-motion' to t."
    (interactive "p")
    (or arg (setq arg 1))
    (let (done)
--- 3644,3650 ----
    "Move point to end of current line.
  With argument ARG not nil or 1, move forward ARG - 1 lines first.
  If point reaches the beginning or end of buffer, it stops there.
! To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t."
    (interactive "p")
    (or arg (setq arg 1))
    (let (done)
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*** 3680,3691 ****
    "Move point to beginning of current display line.
  With argument ARG not nil or 1, move forward ARG - 1 lines first.
  If point reaches the beginning or end of buffer, it stops there.
! To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t.
! 
! This command does not move point across a field boundary unless doing so
! would move beyond there to a different line; if ARG is nil or 1, and
! point starts at a field boundary, point does not move.  To ignore field
! boundaries bind `inhibit-field-text-motion' to t."
    (interactive "p")
    (or arg (setq arg 1))
    (if (/= arg 1)
--- 3675,3681 ----
    "Move point to beginning of current display line.
  With argument ARG not nil or 1, move forward ARG - 1 lines first.
  If point reaches the beginning or end of buffer, it stops there.
! To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t."
    (interactive "p")
    (or arg (setq arg 1))
    (if (/= arg 1)