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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: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:59:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zgveq9bo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tulmc88r.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri,  25 Jun 2021 16:46:28 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:46:28 +0200
> Cc: 30747@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > The future horizontal-recenter command (please implement) should keep
> > the cursor upon the same character (x), but just move the view screen ([
> > ]) so that x is now in the center.
> >
> > ......[.......x..]...... BEFORE
> > .........[....x.....]... AFTER
> 
> So this would only be for buffers where truncate-lines is non-nil?

No, also in partial-width windows (as in after "C-x 3").

> Yes, it'd be handy to have such a command...  or perhaps `C-l'
> should just do this automatically (in these buffers)?
> 
> Any opinions?

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.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-25 14:59 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 [this message]
2021-06-26 12:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-26 12:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 15:21         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-06-30 11:58         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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