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Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]
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David De La Harpe Golden |
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Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting] |
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Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:19:48 +0100 |
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>>> The point is the place on the screen that you're looking at, where new
>>> text appears when you type. Are you suggesting that when you type, you
>>> shouldn't see anything, because "point" isn't on the screen?
>>>
>>
>> Nope, jump-scroll back to insertion point handily addresses that. :-)
>
> And C-x C-x too?
Not 100% sure what you mean:
You could have some commands cause a display to jump back to point,
others not - as Martin's scroll-restore.el implemented. I imagine
C-x C-x would be one of the ones that should warp the display to
wherever the point ends up.
C-x C-x as a "workaround" (or perhaps "usual emacsy way to do it"!) in
existing emacs for scrolling warping the point is quite relevant -
obviously, if you just have the slightest foresight and get into the
habit of setting a mark before ever scrolling away into the wide blue
yonder*, then you can always just warp back to the precise position the
point was at before you scrolled with C-u C-SPC and C-x C-x as
appropriate to reestablish your pre-scrolling point and mark positions.
(of course, that kinda leads into Thomas Lord's point about emacs
conflating marking and region-selecting mechanisms... Aside: I wonder
if the mark ring would be more appreciated as a bookmarking mechanism
if it were visually represented, maybe little display blips.)
* Why not just open another frame/window on the same buffer? Why not
indeed?
- rampant region highlighting, Glenn Morris, 2008/04/06
- Re: rampant region highlighting, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/06
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/06
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/06
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting],
David De La Harpe Golden <=
- visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Drew Adams, 2008/04/07
- Re: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/07
- Re: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/07
- Re: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/04/07
- RE: visual marks [was: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Drew Adams, 2008/04/07
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/06
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/07
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/07
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/08
- Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting], Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08