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From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Howard Persh <hpersh@gmail.com>
Cc: howard.persh.us@member.mensa.org, 8952@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8952: GNU Emacs Bugs, Wishes, Etc.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:39:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw80ku94.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim1P2gGDk-dJc03ZuLOYmaHXPvN5Q@mail.gmail.com> (Howard Persh's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:20:23 -0700")

retitle 8952 Allow narrowing to be window specific
quit

Howard Persh <hpersh@gmail.com> writes:

> (1) query-replace immediately after narrow-to-region seems unreliable
> -- first time, it will not find the search string, but after an
> immediate second attempt, it will.

Covered by #13178.

>
> Wish list:
> (1) Narrowing being a per-window operation, not per-buffer (currently,
> narrowing in one window affects all windows viewing same buffer).

I'm retitling to this, but I suspect it will be too difficult to
implement.

> More way-out wish list:
> (1) Many years ago, I worked on IBM mainframes.  There was an editor
> called XEDIT, which ran under CMS.  One really, really nice feature of
> XEDIT that I would love to see Emacs adopt is keeping the current line
> (line with the edit cursor) on the middle (vertically) line of the
> window.  Maybe this could be a minor mode...?  Personally, I find this
> a much easier way to present and edit a file...

Covered by #5718.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-12  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 18:20 bug#8952: GNU Emacs Bugs, Wishes, Etc Howard Persh
2015-02-28  5:22 ` bug#8952: (no subject) Teika Kazura
2017-02-12  2:39 ` npostavs [this message]
2021-07-17 14:38 ` bug#8952: Allow narrowing to be window specific Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-17 21:30   ` Juri Linkov

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