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From: cantrell@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Keith Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Another vi feature I miss.
Message-ID: <7494@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 10 Mar 89 15:54:57 GMT
Reply-To: cantrell@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Keith Cantrell)
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Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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A vi feature I miss is the way vi keep track of where the cursor is
as you move up and down lines.  In vi if I am on column 30 and move
to a line that only has 10 character on it, the cursor goes to the
end of the line, but when I get to a line that has more than 30
characters on it, the cursor will go back to column 30.  Emacs
on the other hand will either, stay at column 10 and eventually
go to the beginning of the line when I hit on empty line and stay
there, or I can set some variable to make it track the end of the line,
but that's not what I want.  Has anybody every hacked the
sources to change this?

Keith

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