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

[Andrew W. Nosenko]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>> I think this case is special. The special thing is the relation between
>> the visual move and the buffer point. That relation changes according to
>> something that is rather unrelated with the buffer contents but can
>> easily be changed by the user. That makes the relation very volatile.
>
> Not really, given that (1) window-width changes quite rarely,

Not always :-(
While intentional changing of the frame size is rare indeed, they may
be changed just because of bug.

See "Shrinking frames as of past month" thread for example.
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg01851.html)

> and (2) most macros are used immediately (in the same buffer/window) and
> then discarded (or rather, forgotten about).
>
> Anyway, what you're suggesting seems every bit as bad, or worse, than
> the problem it's purporting to solve -- without, as far as I can see,
> any actual evidence that there _is_ a problem (have we gotten any bug
> reports?).

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <address@hidden>