Re: Free cursor movement beyond the end of line

[Daniel Herzig]

<yegupov@gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

I recently discovered rectangle-mode -- maybe it does what you want.

If you hit C-x SPC at the end of your long line you can press "down" and
will land exactly in the column below. It will not place any whitespace at
the and of your short line. If you hit C-g then, the cursor lands at the
end of the short line.

Best regards,
Daniel

> Hello. 
>
> There is popular text editors option "allow cursor movement end of line". 
> It was implemented in many of text editors long time ago.
>
> But it seems that it's absent in emacs (yes, I tried set-goal-column, 
> picture-mode, artist-mode).
>
>
> For example when I edit the text: 
> ------------------------------
> this is my long line|
> short line
> this is my other long line
> ------------------------------
>
> What I need: 
>
>  - when press "down" key cursor should keep position at column 21:
> ------------------------------
> this is my long line
> short line          |
> this is my other long line
> ------------------------------
>
>  - buffer shouldn't be modified because of cursor movement only, no need to 
> surprising trailing spaces; 
>
>  - keys like C-e should move cursor to the REAL end of line:
> ------------------------------
> this is my long line
> short line|
> this is my other long line
> ------------------------------
>  - this should be worked ok with visual-line-mode mode too
>
>
> Notes 
>  - set-goal-column seems a something close about that but not exactly
>  - artist-mode and picture-mode unfortunatelly add extra spaces and has 
> surprice behavour in visual-line-mode
>
>
> Is there a way to solve somehow this problem in emacs?