From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing point to be outside the window? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:59:33 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <877dcsz05m.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87ilwd7zaq.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87ilwd7zaq.fsf@yahoo.com> <83bl24yaed.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfvg7l51.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ee70l27e.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28535"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1GQvMUvP2K0z6kXnhj+dU+ILoww= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 28 18:02:42 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrNZa-0007K5-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:02:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47868 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrNZZ-0007fo-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrNX3-0004dJ-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:43592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrNX1-0002ID-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrNX0-000427-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:00:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280429 Archived-At: On Sunday, 28 Nov 2021 at 16:39, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote: > I'll bite: because a user could want to peek a few screenfuls > ahead/behind, while keeping the cursor at a point of interest, where That's what C-x 2 M-C-v is for? ;-) Seriously, it's what Emacs does so well that other editors do not: being able to have multiple views into the same file/buffer. or, alternatively, set a mark, scroll away, and jump back... -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1