Re: line-move-visual

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Xah Lee posted:
> Personally, i find moving by visual line is not just a good feature,
> but a critical one, with consequences that effect the evolution of
> language design and thinking, long term. The hard-coded lines is
> fundamentally introduced by unix and C gang, and brain damaged a whole
> generation of coders.

This is why UNIX and C accomplish things.  They were based upon 
accomplishing something useful rather than promoting an ideology.

It sounds like Microsoft Word is more suitable for the sort of work that 
you do.  Perhaps you ought to use Word instead of seeking to make emacs 
become more like Word.

-- Mark --

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