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bug#9991: Incorrect return value from forward-line
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#9991: Incorrect return value from forward-line |
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Date: |
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:24:01 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Tiphaine Turpin wrote:
> The number of lines left to move which is returned by forward-line
> considers the last line as processed if it is not empty. For example,
> (forward-line 1) evaluates to 0 if point is on the last line but
> strictly before the end of the buffer.
I think you are describing the documented behaviour?
C-h f forward-line
With positive N, a non-empty line at the end counts as one line
successfully moved (for the return value).
(ISTR thinking it odd myself.)