Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: forward-line (was Re: Question regarding next-line) Keywords: GNU-only Message-ID: <4437@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 89 01:39:57 GMT References: <8363@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <38147@bbn.COM> <4266@omepd.UUCP> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Distribution: usa Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 12 In-reply-to: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) merlyn@intelob (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes: >Hey, if you don't like next-line giving you newlines, use >forward-line. Geez. Simple, dudes. Except that forward-line does some extra magic, like keeping track of the (temporary) goal column, which we _do_ like. It would be nice to be able to select the behavior you like by setting a flag, *auto-extend-buffer-forward*, say. -- Scott Schwartz