bug#13273: 24.3.50; [PATCH] enhancement request: repeatable `visual-line-mode' line movements

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
  >> on Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:51:23 -0800 wrote:

  >> This stuff doesn't work at all for me. Huge amount of misbehavior.
  >> A couple of them, backward-paragraph hangs emacs,
  >> typing after fill-column infloops. 'C-h k key' doesn't work, for
  >> example C-h k C-a shows C-a in the minibuffer and waits ... Many other
  >> editing commands stall emacs. 
  >> 
  >> When writing this mail I got 
  >> 
  >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds 
  >> `max-lisp-eval-depth'")
  >> 
  >> with 600 lines backtrace. 
  >> [...]
  >> 
  >> [remap move-beginning-of-line] wasn't there for nothing,  or was it?
  >> 
  >> Sorry,
  >> 
  >> but
  >> I
  >> think
  >> it
  >> should
  >> be
  >> something
  >> much
  >> less
  >> intrusive
  >> and
  >> only
  >> concerning beginning-of-visual-line and end-of-visible-line.
  >> 
  >> (^^^^--- Ah yes, fill-paragraph now produces this ... after 
  >> C-g ... restarting my emacs ...)

  > You give no recipe - nothing concrete so that someone can understand your
  > problem.  Your message is pretty incomprehensible, at least to me.  Maybe
  > someone else can understand it and translate or DTRT.

Here is a short version: apply patch -> test -> emacs infloops on every
single occasion, i.e "C-h k C-a", "M-q" etc. Sorry, cannot investigate
more.

  > Are you started from emacs -Q and don't have something else interfering?  
Just a
  > suggestion.

Yes, with emacs -Q on GNU Emacs 24.2.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
Version 2.24.13) of 2012-12-25


As mentioned previously, I think this is not the way to go. As a
visual-line-mode user I would very much appreciate if C-a could cycle
between visual and logical bols, instead of going to previous bol.

    Vitalie