Re: Hl-line and visual-line

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:06:11 +0200
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, David Reitter <address@hidden>, 
>> address@hidden
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Stefan Monnier
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> IOW, we need to introduce a new subroutine (that would produce such a
>> >> list), not change beginning/end-of-visual-line.  Do you agree?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>>
>> Could we please have `point-at-bovl' and `point-at-eovl' (or the
>> longer versions `visual-line-beginning-position' etc)?
>
> I think you have them already: you these are beginning-of-visual-line
> and end-of-visual-line.  If these don't fit the bill, please tell what
> is your definition of `bovl' and `eovl'.

I mean the same difference as between beginning-of-line and
line-beginning-position (point-at-bol). (I prefer the shorter versions
here. They are easier to read and easy to understand.)

The first one moves point, but the second does not.