Re: up/down arrow in buffer with wrapped lines stops on all the wraplines

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-07-15 11:40 (-0700), David Karr wrote:

> If I'm in a buffer with wrapped lines, and my cursor is at the
> beginning of one line, and the line above is a wrapped line, I would
> assume that "up arrow" would skip the wrapped part of the previous
> line and go to the beginning of the real line. Instead, I find that
> the cursor goes to the start of the "screen" line, not the start of
> the real text line.
>
> I can see some advantages with this current behavior, but I'd really
> prefer "consistent" behavior, where "up arrow" goes to the next text
> line, not the next screen line.
>
> Is there a way to customize this behavior?

Yes:

    (setq line-move-visual nil)