In emacs, if you hit the down arrow key, the cursor will go to next
line in the text, i.e., the part after the first next '\n'.

However, sometimes when the line is long and is wrapped into several
lines on the screen, I wanna move between the screen lines, instead of
the text lines, just like what happens when you hit the down arrow key
in gedit or the notepad in Windows.

How to do that?

On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:41 -0700 (PDT), xz gmail.com> wrote:

Check out `longlines-mode'. I think you'll like it :)

xz wrote:

The best way I know is to use isearch (C-s) for two or three characters
before the one you want the cursor moved to and then isearch-exit which
I have bound to M-s. (I use a Dvorak layout so you may want to bind to
some other keychord) M-s is center-line in textmode but this is
overridden in the context of isearch.

Ed

Hi,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; point motion by screen lines (as opposed to text lines)
;; TODO screen lines mode enabled by default for all buffers
(when (require 'screen-lines)
;; following lines commented out for keeping the original `kill-line'
;; in `screen-lines' minor mode
(add-hook 'screen-lines-load-hook
(lambda ()
(ad-disable-advice 'kill-line 'around 'screen-lines)
(ad-activate 'kill-line)))

On May 31, 12:34 am, Giorgos Keramidas
wrote:

Thank you for your reply

xz wrote:

Long Lines mode is a minor mode, local to each buffer. So you'll
need to turn it on in every buffer where you want it, which can be
done 2 ways: via major mode hooks or via file visiting hooks.

Here's the first way:
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)
...
(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)

On Jun 4, 8:24 am, Kevin Rodgers gmail.com> wrote:

~~~

I mean it works when I add
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)

while it does work if I only add
(add-hook 'tex-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)

xz wrote:

On Jun 5, 12:41 am, Kevin Rodgers gmail.com> wrote: