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Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char?
From: |
Uday S Reddy |
Subject: |
Re: move-end-of-line vs just search for newline char? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:42:02 -0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
Xah Lee wrote:
> There's the move-end-of-line function. The source code and doc seems a
> bit complicated.
>
> my question is, what's the difference if i just call
>
> (search-forward "\n")
> (backward-char 1)
I think (end-of-line 1) is the preferred way of going to the end of line.
move-end-of-line is an interactive command and it has to take care of various
stuff. Your alternative might not work in a CRLF line-ending format or if
there is no newline at the end of the buffer.
Cheers,
Uday