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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org
Subject: bug#18590: 24.3.93; Scrolling changes/forgets selection
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 10:42:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnpvyhut.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0gvj3$vql$1@colin.muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2014 13:29:07 +0000 (UTC)")

> Suppose you've scrolled the window so that point is no longer in it, and
> you now want to set point to somewhere now visible; how are you going to
> do it?

You use the special new key-binding which says "Move point to a visible
spot in the window".

Similarly, we could add a command that does "Move point back to the
position it had before we started scrolling", which would provide some
of the behavior that N. Jackson is requesting.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30 13:07 bug#18590: 24.3.93; Scrolling changes/forgets selection N. Jackson
2014-09-30 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 17:42   ` N. Jackson
2014-09-30 17:56     ` martin rudalics
2014-09-30 19:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30 17:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 18:09     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.10089.1412098998.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-01 13:29     ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-01 14:42       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-01 14:59         ` Drew Adams
2022-04-13  0:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-13  0:50   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found] <<87k34li7ex.fsf@moondust.localdomain>
     [not found] ` <<83ppedkwrs.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 15:06   ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 15:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<69d7a976-96b7-49c6-bb96-e69f2fa8c93e@default>
     [not found] ` <<83fvf9ktwd.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 16:43   ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 17:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<4a1fd296-dc2f-4fb3-a854-0b4acea62f72@default>
     [not found]     ` <<8361g5kpqb.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-09-30 17:10       ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30 17:44         ` Eli Zaretskii

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