Re: Behaviour of {beginning,end}-of-buffer-or-history

[Bernhard Tittelbach <xro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-06-01 21:43, Bernhard Tittelbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently I was dissatisfied with the behavior of my HOME/END keys.
> What I wanted was this:
>
> If cursor is a beginning/end of the buffer
>   then jump to the beginning/end of the history
> Else
>   jump to the beginning/end of that line,
>   no matter whether we are in a multi- or single-line buffer
>
>
> Seemingly there are functions that do exactly that:
>
> beginning-of-buffer-or-history
>    Move to the beginning of the buffer, or if already there, move to the first
>    event in the history list.
>
> end-of-buffer-or-history
>    Move to the end of the buffer, or if already there, move to the last
>    event in the history list.
>
> But in reality, what above functions really do is this:
>
> If cursor is a beginning/end of a buffer
>   then jump to the beginning/end of the history
> ElseIf cursor is somewhere in a SINGLE-LINE buffer
>   then jump to the beginning/end of the history (why ???)
> Else
>   jump to the beginning/end of the MULTI-LINE buffer
>
>
> I wonder if this is really how these functions are intended to work ?
> At the very least I would consider them misnamed, or does "buffer" really only 
> ever refer to multi-line buffers ?
to clarify:

I find it odd that {beginning,end}-of-buffer-or-history jumps to the 
beginning/end of the history and not to the beginning/end of the line
if called on a single-line buffer

Jumping to the beginning/end of a line in a multi-line buffer is just an extra 
my function does, and not something I think {beginning,end}-of-buffer-or-history
should do (it's name does not imply any such functionality :)

cheers,
Bernhard