* [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left]
@ 2004-09-04 22:12 Richard Stallman
2004-09-05 12:36 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-05 22:56 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2004-09-04 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
What do people think of this idea? It seems plausible to me.
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> I found a keystroke that will leave users jumbled if accidentally hit:
> C-x < runs the command scroll-left.
> Hey man, where'd my text go? Undo, undo, undo... no relief.
> Maybe it's hiding up at the top left corner somewhere? Hitting
> beginning-of-buffer, backwards-char, beginning-of-line won't help.
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> Maybe "disable" scroll-left.
I second to this. It's quite a surprise for a starter, so it would be
better of disabled.
Jari
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* Re: [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left]
2004-09-04 22:12 [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left] Richard Stallman
@ 2004-09-05 12:36 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-09-06 22:11 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-05 22:56 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Alex Schroeder @ 2004-09-05 12:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> I found a keystroke that will leave users jumbled if accidentally hit:
>> C-x < runs the command scroll-left.
>> Hey man, where'd my text go? Undo, undo, undo... no relief.
>> Maybe it's hiding up at the top left corner somewhere? Hitting
>> beginning-of-buffer, backwards-char, beginning-of-line won't help.
>> Maybe "disable" scroll-left.
When I got started with Emacs this freaked me out. I invariable
killed Emacs, not daring to save (assuming that the file would be
empty).
It took me a long time to learn what actually happened. I think I
only discovered it when I was actually learning about scroll-left and
scroll-right. *Then* I realized what had been happening.
An alternative to disabling it would be a message that tells me how to
return to the previous state. Much like help on something says:
Type M-x switch-to-buffer RET to remove help window. C-M-v to scroll the help.
We could use a message:
Type M-x scroll-right RET to scroll back to your previous position.
Alex.
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..O Schroeder's fifth law:
OOO Never accept more work than you can handle in one night of hacking.
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* Re: [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left]
2004-09-04 22:12 [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left] Richard Stallman
2004-09-05 12:36 ` Alex Schroeder
@ 2004-09-05 22:56 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2004-09-05 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> What do people think of this idea? It seems plausible to me.
I think it makes very good sense!
Another approach could be to undo left scroll if all lines become
"invisible" doing that... But that's a bit harder to do.
>
> From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com
> Subject: Re: maybe disable scroll-left
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> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:24:09 +0300
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>
> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>
>> I found a keystroke that will leave users jumbled if accidentally hit:
>> C-x < runs the command scroll-left.
>> Hey man, where'd my text go? Undo, undo, undo... no relief.
>> Maybe it's hiding up at the top left corner somewhere? Hitting
>> beginning-of-buffer, backwards-char, beginning-of-line won't help.
> |
>> Maybe "disable" scroll-left.
>
> I second to this. It's quite a surprise for a starter, so it would be
> better of disabled.
>
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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