Re: line-move-visual never set to nil?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> > Why doesn't it work right in a keyboard macro?
> > Is this because it uses data structures that are updated
> > only by redisplay, and the keyboard macro does not redisplay?
>
> No, it's because keyboard macros recorded using one window width may not
> work properly when you change the window width, if the line wrapping has
> changed.
>
> After thinking about this more, I think we might leave this alone.  It's
> not difficult to do M-x toggle-truncate-lines if you need to avoid this
> problem, if it ever crops up.


But this is a fundamental and known problem with keyboard macros and 
line-move-visual. As I said before: Why not turn on line-move-visual 
during keyboard recording and replaying?

I thought Stefan responded earlier (thanks) that this was what a 
proposed patch did. It looks like I am misunderstanding something. Could 
someone explain?