21.3 move-to-column goes not go to the column (discards symbols)

[Jari Aalto+mail.linux]

Given the description below, these should be equivalent. Press C-x C-e
at the end of sexps. The latter does nothing. It should because
the documentation says "non-nil". This has worked in previous Emacs
versions.

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(move-to-column 42 t)
(move-to-column 42 'force)


Jari

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move-to-column is an interactive built-in function.
(move-to-column COLUMN &optional FORCE)

Move point to column COLUMN in the current line.
The column of a character is calculated by adding together the widths
as displayed of the previous characters in the line.
This function ignores line-continuation;
there is no upper limit on the column number a character can have
and horizontal scrolling has no effect.

If specified column is within a character, point goes after that character.
If it's past end of line, point goes to end of line.

A non-nil second (optional) argument FORCE means,


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