bug#971: 23.0.60; next-line, previous-line and goal-column

[Roland Winkler]

On Thu Sep 18 2008 martin rudalics wrote:
>  > When goal-column has a value larger than the window width, next line
>  > and previous-line behave oddly. Visit file foo.txt, choose a window
>  > width of, say, 40, and set goal-column to 50. If initially point is
>  > at the beginning of line, next-line and previous-line put point in a
>  > column smaller than goal-column. Executing next-line again puts
>  > point at the end of the line past goal-column.
>  >
>  > Results also behave on the value of truncate-lines. The above refers
>  > to truncate-lines being t. If it is nil, previous-line doesn't do
>  > anything for me. (It does not move point backwards.)
>  >
>  > There is no such problem with emacs 22.2.
> 
> I suppose this has been fixed with Chong's recent change to
> `vertical-motion'.  Can you confirm?

No, the problem still persists. I just built a fresh emacs from CVS.
It still gives me the very same problems described in the original
report.

Roland