Fix bug #17244 with line-move-visual when display string covers a lot of text.

 src/xdisp.c (move_it_by_lines): If a large portion of buffer text is
 covered by a display string that ends in a newline, and that cases
 going back by DVPOS lines to hit the search limit, lift the limit
 and go back until DVPOS is reached.
 src/indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Handle correctly the case when the
 display string is preceded by an empty line.

src/ChangeLog

+2014-04-12  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* xdisp.c (move_it_by_lines): If a large portion of buffer text is
+	covered by a display string that ends in a newline, and that cases
+	going back by DVPOS lines to hit the search limit, lift the limit
+	and go back until DVPOS is reached.  (Bug#17244)
+
+	* indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Handle correctly the case when the
+	display string is preceded by an empty line.
+
 2014-04-11  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* w32.c (sys_umask) <WRITE_USER>: Remove redundant constant, and

src/indent.c

@@ -2051,8 +2051,15 @@ whether or not it is currently displayed in some window.  */)
 	   string, move_it_to will overshoot it, while vertical-motion
 	   wants to put the cursor _before_ the display string.  So in
 	   that case, we move to buffer position before the display
-	   string, and avoid overshooting.  */
-	move_it_to (&it, disp_string_at_start_p ? PT - 1 : PT,
+	   string, and avoid overshooting.  But if the position before
+	   the display string is a newline, we don't do this, because
+	   otherwise we will end up in a screen line that is one too
+	   far back.  */
+	move_it_to (&it,
+		    (!disp_string_at_start_p
+		     || FETCH_BYTE (IT_BYTEPOS (it)) == '\n')
+		    ? PT
+		    : PT - 1,
 		    -1, -1, -1, MOVE_TO_POS);
 
       /* IT may move too far if truncate-lines is on and PT lies

src/xdisp.c

@@ -9511,6 +9511,7 @@ move_it_by_lines (struct it *it, ptrdiff_t dvpos)
       ptrdiff_t start_charpos, i;
       int nchars_per_row
 	= (it->last_visible_x - it->first_visible_x) / FRAME_COLUMN_WIDTH (it->f);
+      bool hit_pos_limit = false;
       ptrdiff_t pos_limit;
       /* Start at the beginning of the screen line containing IT's
@@ -9527,8 +9528,11 @@ move_it_by_lines (struct it *it, ptrdiff_t dvpos)
 	pos_limit = BEGV;
       else
 	pos_limit = max (start_charpos + dvpos * nchars_per_row, BEGV);
+
       for (i = -dvpos; i > 0 && IT_CHARPOS (*it) > pos_limit; --i)
 	back_to_previous_visible_line_start (it);
+      if (i > 0 && IT_CHARPOS (*it) <= pos_limit)
+	hit_pos_limit = true;
       reseat (it, it->current.pos, 1);
       /* Move further back if we end up in a string or an image.  */
@@ -9572,6 +9576,25 @@ move_it_by_lines (struct it *it, ptrdiff_t dvpos)
 	  else
 	    bidi_unshelve_cache (it2data, 1);
 	}
+      else if (hit_pos_limit && pos_limit > BEGV
+	       && dvpos < 0 && it2.vpos < -dvpos)
+	{
+	  /* If we hit the limit, but still didn't make it far enough
+	     back, that means there's a display string with a newline
+	     covering a large chunk of text, and that caused
+	     back_to_previous_visible_line_start try to go too far.
+	     Punish those who commit such atrocities by going back
+	     until we've reached DVPOS, after lifting the limit, which
+	     could make it slow for very long lines.  "If it hurts,
+	     don't do that!"  */
+	  dvpos += it2.vpos;
+	  RESTORE_IT (it, it, it2data);
+	  for (i = -dvpos; i > 0; --i)
+	    {
+	      back_to_previous_visible_line_start (it);
+	      it->vpos--;
+	    }
+	}
       else
 	RESTORE_IT (it, it, it2data);
     }