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- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Sender: help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: CTRL-N does not keep columns corectly
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:59:31 -0400
- Message-ID: <6890.711824371@JUNIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>
- From: Todd_Kaufmann@JUNIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!help-lucid-emacs
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- > In Lucid Emacs, the point is always positioned at the last N, so if initial
- > N was 100, and next line has only 90 columns, at the third line it will try
- > to go to col. 90. If the line is shorter, it will got to EOL. So N is always
- > getting the last position and decreasing. When you hit an empty line, N := 0
- > and that's it.
- >
- > Is this a bug or a feature (:-) ? IMHO, it's annoying.
-
- Never seen this.
-
- Are you loading some customized version of C-n? What does C-h c C-n say?
-
- Does it happen when you start with no .emacs ("lemacs -q") ?
-
- Have you been hitting set-goal-column (C-x C-n)? If so, use C-u C-x C-n
- to unset it, and see if problem persists.
-
- -todd
-