Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> With LCD[*] editors, sometimes pressing 'a' will teleport you to far
> off place, sometimes not.

"a" is still always inserted where the point is...

> Not that big.  For a start, you notice it before you've gone very far.
> Pressing <page down> _always_ takes point away from where it was. 

> So, how do you move point rapidly to somewhere else in a buffer?  There's
> not much point using the <page down> key, if the moment you try to do
> something you're jump-scrolled back to where you started.  

That just depends on whether you conceptualise a "page down" keypress as
"move the point down by a page, and scroll to follow" or "scroll the
viewport down (or up) by a page".

Actually, both would be possible from the keyboard- in most X11 terminal
emulators, shift-pgup/dn scrolls without moving the point.  (though I
guess that should be for shift-selection by pages in emacs, and
M-pgdn/up for scroll-other-window is handy.  C-pgdn/up is taken too, for
scroll-left/right (not the most intuitive binding, that, byt hey, I tend
to use line wrapping anyway), but that really only leaves C-M-pgdn/up
for page-up-leaving-point-where-it-is.