Improve documentation of how vertical-motion interprets columns.

 src/indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Doc fix.

 doc/lispref/positions.texi (Screen Lines): Clarify how columns are counted
 by vertical-motion.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index f28a6a63ec4..93a25ba2871 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-06-21  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Doc fix.
+
 2014-06-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         Port to OS X ACLs (Bug#17810).
diff --git a/src/indent.c b/src/indent.c
index dc862518924..f492461bf50 100644
--- a/src/indent.c
+++ b/src/indent.c
@@ -1944,9 +1944,12 @@ The optional second argument WINDOW specifies the window to use for
 parameters such as width, horizontal scrolling, and so on.
 The default is to use the selected window's parameters.
 
-LINES can optionally take the form (COLS . LINES), in which case
-the motion will not stop at the start of a screen line but on
-its column COLS (if such exists on that line, that is).
+LINES can optionally take the form (COLS . LINES), in which case the
+motion will not stop at the start of a screen line but COLS column
+from the visual start of the line (if such exists on that line, that
+is).  If the line is scrolled horizontally, COLS is interpreted
+visually, i.e., as addition to the columns of text beyond the left
+edge of the window.
 
 `vertical-motion' always uses the current buffer,
 regardless of which buffer is displayed in WINDOW.