Re: How can I move my cursor 80 characters with a key binding?

[Stawrul]

> 
> Does anyone know an easier way to cursor around a very long line? 
I'm pretty frustrated with how I can't simply hit the up arrow and 
move up to the previous line on the screen (which is actually part 
of the same very long line), but it's an improvement over PICO which 
always adds a carriage return at the edge of the screen. I use the 
Terminal program in Mac OS X which doesn't seem to allow mouse 
input.
> 

You should try longlines-mode. In this mode returns inserted by the 
user are "hard" returns. The returns inserted by the filling 
functions, which prevent the lines from running off the screen, are 
"soft" returns. Soft returns are automatically removed when the text 
is saved to disk. You can navigate through single long line 
displayed in several lines as through many short lines, by hitting 
up/down arrow or C-p, C-n (like in PICO). To use this mode you need 
longlines.el file. If you use EmacsFromCVS you already have it. In 
other case you can download it from http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/
viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/longlines.el
Add something like this to your ~/.emacs:
(require 'longlines)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-q" 'longlines-mode)
(global-set-key "\C-cq" 'refill-mode)
Then open a file and hit C-c C-q and C-c q to turn on both modes. 
Hit M-q at a long line to break it with "soft" returns. You can 
write a function to automatically break all lines (search at 
emacswiki.org)

Stawrul