From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: A fringe indicator that shows the last/first line before scrolling Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:34:07 +0100 Message-ID: <47C6FE9F.1060800@gmail.com> References: <8763w9mhdm.fsf@member.fsf.org> <64bfe3d50802280555l626d1dd4o9eb002f7d6c09681@mail.gmail.com> <47C6D74C.6010501@gmail.com> <8e24944a0802280834v3cf8e2acxd7292feacd4c470b@mail.gmail.com> <47C6F4F8.5040703@gmail.com> <8e24944a0802281001l7022dedfg19846275cba15ef0@mail.gmail.com> <47C6F9A5.5050406@gmail.com> <8e24944a0802281018v6804526yad1bd02191ede989@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204223745 3079 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 18:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David O'Toole , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 19:36:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUnbw-00046c-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:36:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUnbP-00010i-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUnaE-0000bN-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUnaD-0000ah-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUnaD-0000ae-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:34:17 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUna9-0001i1-7c; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:60731 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JUna6-00005R-9A; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:34:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <8e24944a0802281018v6804526yad1bd02191ede989@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080227-0, 2008-02-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JUna6-00005R-9A. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JUna6-00005R-9A d281f9d29394a5579401f62dec60d7eb X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90755 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > On 28/02/2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> David De La Harpe Golden wrote: >> >>> Well, it depends - if you want to do it only for actual commands >> > scroll-up and scroll-down, then post-command-hook will presumably >> > work. If you want to do it for "scrolling", then things like >> > scroll-bar scrolling may cause problems. >> >> >> It looks like I am missing something. Are you saying that "things like >> scroll-bar scrolling" is not done through Emacs "commands" (ie >> interactive Emacs functions)? >> > > See first caveat in opening comments in Martin's scroll-restore.el > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01892.html > > and discussion thread following it. Not sure I understood everything there, but what I noticed was that point-before-scroll needs to have a window local value. Is that the main issue? Perhaps that can be emulated with a window local overlay at the moment? (It is ugly of course, but just to test the concept with the fringe indicator.)