Re: Preserving sanity in Emacs [Re: rampant region highlighting]

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:

> PgUp/Dn would still move the point around the buffer, as I would
> consider them analogous to cursor keys (cursor keys also move the
> point around the buffer in emacs - and when they move the point to
> somewhere currently offscreen, emacs scrolls the viewport to bring it
> back on...).  i.e. PgUp/Dn means "move the point one page up or down"
>
> C-M-Pgdown mightn't move the point, but only scroll the viewport.
>
> viewport here is ancient amiga terminology, no idea what the
> youngsters call it, I mean in a (perhaps virtual) 2D plane, the
> viewport is the "window" onto the plane that is viewed.

This isn't going to be implemented in the forseeable future, and there
are more urgent things to work on.  Let's stop wasting bandwidth on
this.