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6.5.2 Moving by Line

Command	Key Binding	Purpose
beginning-of-line	‘C-a’ / ‘<home>’	Beginning of line
end-of-line	‘C-e’ / ‘<end>’	End of line
back-to-indentation	‘M-m’	First character on line
forward-line		Move N lines forward (no error)
		Return COUNT of lines left to move
vertical-motion		Moves point to start of the screen line
line-beginning-position		Return char pos of first character
line-end-position		Return char pos of last character
count-lines		Return no. lines between START and END
line-number-at-pos		Return line number of posotion POS
bolp		Return t if point is at the beginning of a line
eolp		Return t if point point is at the end of a line

Text lines are portions of the buffer delimited by ‘newline’ characters. ‘newline’ characters are regarded as part of the previous line.

The first text line begins at the beginning of the buffer, and the last text line ends at the end of the buffer, whether or not the last character is a newline.

• Lines
• Visual Line Mode