Re: line-move-visual

[Uday S Reddy]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> It's far from obvious that this change (line-visual-mode being set) is a
> Bad Thing.  Without it, moving around things like log files with 300
> character lines was an utter pain.  I'd suggest it was more of a pain
> than the one you're suffering, because it hit users using Emacs in its
> principal way of working, rather than in special cases in some obscure feature
> (keyboard macros).

If line-move-visual was nil by default, would you have been able to set it to t 
in order to move around the log files?

Cheers,
Uday