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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 30747@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#30747: Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 15:58:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czs8rddb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmw8bxki.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat,  26 Jun 2021 14:49:17 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org,  30747@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 14:49:17 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Since lines are generally not all of the same width, such horizontal
> > scrolling can only guarantee to center one line, and sometimes cannot
> > center it at all (if it's narrower than the window).  I wonder whether
> > the OP indeed understands what he will get as result of implementing
> > this feature.
> 
> The centring would be based on the current line, yes.

So when one goes one line up or down, one would need to recenter?

>                                                        But horizontal
> centring is mostly useful when you have a display that's much wider than
> your window width, which can happen i deeply nested threads in Gnus, for
> instance.

Doesn't auto-hscroll-mode = current-line take care of that?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-26 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-08  3:01 bug#30747: Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-03-08 10:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-03-08 10:35   ` Werner LEMBERG
2021-06-25 14:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-25 14:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 12:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-26 12:58       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-26 15:21         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-30 11:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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