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bug#16497: 24.3.50; `move-to-column' ignores invisible text at the begin


From: Bastien
Subject: bug#16497: 24.3.50; `move-to-column' ignores invisible text at the beginning of the line, which create problems when using string-rectangle
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:55:05 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> It's probably due to the post-command processing which tries to move
>>> point outside of invisible regions and to pretend that invisible regions
>>> don't exist at all (and paying attention to stickiness so that it
>>> prefers text positions where `invisible' won't be inherited).
>>> So moving from "before a" to "before b" ends up moving to "before c"
>>> so that C-f from "before a" moves visually by one char (to "before c").
>> Thanks -- you nearly lost me here!
>> Should not this be considered a bug?
>
> Yes, it's a bug in `move-beginning-of-line' which moves forward (to
> "before b") when you're just before a, whereas it should always never
> move forward.

I see this is now fixed in trunk, thanks.

-- 
 Bastien





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