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From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: goal-column not buffer-specific
Message-ID: <KARL.90Jan17095620@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 14:56:20 GMT
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Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
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A user here noticed a problem where, after using the "view" mode, his
cursor would always hang on the left when using C-n and C-p in other
buffers.  View.el sets goal-column to zero, which produced the effect,
but why is goal-column not a buffer-specific variable?  Any good
reason?

--Karl