Hello all,
This is a great community to see on Lemmy!
I have a question about the following in the emacs tutorial.
"Each line of text ends with a Newline character, which serves to separate it from the following line. (Normally, the last line in a file will have a Newline at the end, but Emacs does not require it.)
Try to C-b at the beginning of a line. It should move to the end of the previous line. This is because it moves back across the Newline character."
My interpretation after multiple reads; emacs loves newline characters and uses them liberally at the end of each line, unlike files who are more conservative and only require it at the eof. Now, if I type C-b at the beginning of a line I will move to the end of the line, this seems to normal. Why is this important? and how does it "move back across the Newline character.
Any thoughts or discussion from you all would be much appreciated.
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emacs loves newline characters and uses them liberally at the end of each line
this is not it. in every text file, lines end with the newline character. emacs doesn’t like newline characters anymore than
cat.the point of the tutorial is that if there is a file whose contents are:
a bthere is a hidden newline character after
a. if the emacs cursor is onband you pressC-b, you move to the hidden new line character aftera.This makes a lot more sense to me. Thank you very much!
