Clarify docs about line movement
* doc/lispref/positions.texi (Text Lines, Screen Lines): Add index entries. * lisp/simple.el (move-beginning-of-line): Remove incorrect mention of images, and reference beginning-of-visual-line. * src/editfns.c (Fline_beginning_position): Reference `vertical-motion' (bug#35899).
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@node Text Lines
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@subsection Motion by Text Lines
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@cindex lines
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@cindex logical lines, moving by
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@cindex physical lines, moving by
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Text lines are portions of the buffer delimited by newline characters,
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which are regarded as part of the previous line. The first text line
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@node Screen Lines
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@subsection Motion by Screen Lines
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@cindex screen lines, moving by
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@cindex visual lines, moving by
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The line functions in the previous section count text lines, delimited
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only by newline characters. By contrast, these functions count screen
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(setq done t)))))))
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(defun move-beginning-of-line (arg)
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"Move point to beginning of current line as displayed.
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\(If there's an image in the line, this disregards newlines
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that are part of the text that the image rests on.)
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"Move point to visible beginning of current logical line.
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This disregards any invisible newline characters.
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With argument ARG not nil or 1, move forward ARG - 1 lines first.
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If point reaches the beginning or end of buffer, it stops there.
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\(But if the buffer doesn't end in a newline, it stops at the
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beginning of the last line.)
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To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t."
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To ignore intangibility, bind `inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t.
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For motion by visual lines, see `beginning-of-visual-line'."
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(interactive "^p")
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(or arg (setq arg 1))
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This function ignores text display directionality; it returns the
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position of the first character in logical order, i.e. the smallest
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character position on the line.
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character position on the logical line. See `vertical-motion' for
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movement by screen lines.
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This function constrains the returned position to the current field
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unless that position would be on a different line from the original,
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