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Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char? |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:42:08 -0000 |
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In gnu.emacs.help Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's the move-end-of-line function. The source code and doc seems a
> bit complicated.
> my question is, what's the difference if i just call
> (search-forward "\n")
> (backward-char 1)
They'll do different things if point is already at the end of a line.
They'll do different things if a line of text wraps onto two lines on the
screen.
> Thanks.
> Xah
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).