Oorja Sandhu writes: [...] > 3. M-x org-table-header-line-mode > > 4. Resize emacs window very small such that horizontal as well as > vertical scrolling is required to see it fully. > > Otherwise, add rows and columns in the org table in the file such that > it exceeds window size both vertically and horizontally. This is not a > useless example because the header line mode is most useful when you > have a big table and heading scrolls off your visible window. > > 5. Go to end of line in a row in the table when the header line > overlay is active. > > 6. Press C-n (or down arrow) twice > > Observation : cursor is at the beginning-of-line > > Expected : cursor should remain at the same column as earlier
Thanks for the report and the clear steps to reproduce the issue. > ========= > My unsuccessful code analysis, if anyone is interested : > There is a post command hook to update the overlay of table > header. This includes the function "beginning-of-line". In more recent > versions of org, it is (move-beginning-of-line 2). > > But all instances of "beginning-of-line" or "move-beginning-of-line" > are wrapped in "save-excursion".. In fact if I invoke > (org-table-header-set-header) instead of C-n, the cursor does not go > to beginning of line. Yes, it looks like the issue is that the movement in org-table-header-set-header resets temporary-goal-column to 0, messing with the logic in line-move-1. This should be fixed by f12ca1a56.