Re: address@hidden: Re: maybe disable scroll-left]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> What do people think of this idea?  It seems plausible to me.

I think it makes very good sense!

Another approach could be to undo left scroll if all lines become
"invisible" doing that...  But that's a bit harder to do.


>
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: maybe disable scroll-left
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: 
> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:24:09 +0300
> Organization: Elisa Internet customer
>
> Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I found a keystroke that will leave users jumbled if accidentally hit:
>> C-x < runs the command scroll-left.
>> Hey man, where'd my text go? Undo, undo, undo... no relief.
>> Maybe it's hiding up at the top left corner somewhere? Hitting
>> beginning-of-buffer, backwards-char, beginning-of-line won't help.
> | 
>> Maybe "disable" scroll-left.
>
> I second to this. It's quite a surprise for a starter, so it would be
> better of disabled.
>

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