Re: UP and DOWN with multi-line minibuffer history

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:43:29 +0200
> 
> On 12/14/2015 05:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it's consistency vs minor inconvenience in certain use cases.  I
> > think consistency should win big time.
> 
> I'd say the choice is rather "consistency and inconvenience in some use 
> cases" vs "inconvenience in some other use cases".

Yes, I agree.

> I've never used the goal column, so that problem sounds fairly obscure, 
> personally.

I think you are using it every time you use C-n/C-p.  I didn't mean
goal-column literally, I meant temporary-goal-column that these
commands use internally to keep point on the same visual column.