From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17346: 24.4.50; Why is the goal column limited to C-n and C-p ? 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X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:88295 Archived-At: Severity: wishlist Hello, I've just tried to set a goal column (with "C-x C-n") and then scroll through some buffer (which has text indented at different columns) using the wheel of my mouse. I expected that, while scrolling with the mouse, the cursor tried to stay at the goal column I set. That would have been helpful for spotting those lines with that level of indentation. But I've seen that the "goal column" feature seems to be limited only to C-n and C-p (according to my test and the docstring of "set-goal-column"). I think that it would make sense to extend this feature to other vertical-scrolling commands like C-v, M-v, scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll or mwheel-scroll. In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2014-04-21 on LEG570 Repository revision: 117001 dancol@dancol.org-20140421012855-xu7gwqdl59pgkgur Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 Configured using: `configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' -- Dani Moncayo