Re: Searching for line beginning

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:49:26 -0400
> 
>   > > If we want to fix this, I think we should just introduce two new
>   > > functions for "real" bol/eol, because this is already awkward enough.
> 
>   > I won't object.
> 
> What would these new functions do?  How would they be different from
> bolp and eolp?

bolp and eolp don't _search_ for next/previous newline, they just
report if point already _is_ at or before a newline.

The intent is to have a function similar to line-beginning-position,
but without the stuff that accounts for fields.