Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I don't think we should modify those in order not to cause trouble
>> where they are used programmatically.  
>
> In general, next-line and previous-line should not be used in Lisp
> programs.

Well, they might make it into keyboard macros.  But that actually is
not addressed properly by my proposal either:

>> Either we add an optional argument SCREEN-LINES to them which the
>> interactive form sets to t, or we create separate next-screen-line
>> and previous-screen-line macros that can be bound to the keys in
>> question.  It is conceivable that we would do this just in
>> longlines-mode or similar modes.
>
> Let's discuss the details after the release...

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