Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:09:35 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
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> `scroll-in-place' means for them to keep the cursor at the same position
> of the screen regardless of whether there's any text at that position.
> In practice, this can be currently implemented only with the help of an
> overlay as with Kim's cua-rect.el.

"Currently" meaning with no changes on the C level, I presume?

> Obviously, if we are able to not show the cursor (Emacs on Windows
> currently lacks this capability IIUC) no overlay is needed.

??? Of course, we can hide the cursor on Windows.  Otherwise, how do
we manage not displaying when auto-hscroll-mode is off and point is
outside of the shown text?