Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: pin the right edge of the text to the right edge of the monitor]

[no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Can someone who has been working on the display code recently
> investigate this bug?

I have just installed a patch which should improve on this behaviour.  

Now the cursor is positioned nearer to the right margin when jumping to
the end of a long line (C-e), rather than centering the cursor as is
usually done when hscrolling.

Note that my fix only applies to the default hscroll settings; if you
have modified the hscroll parameters, your setting still apply.

> 
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Subject: pin the right edge of the text to the right edge of the monitor
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:03:24 +0800
> 
> Gentlemen, do
> $ perl -wle "for (1..50){print 'z' x $((${COLUMNS-99}+10))}" > wide_file
> #I.e. make a file with lines longer than your monitor can handle without wrapping.
> $ emacs -q --no-site-file wide_file
> M-x toggle-truncate-lines
> C-e or C-x <
> Note how there is tons of space wasted as there is no way to pin the
> right edge of the text to the right edge of the monitor.
> A C-a gets the left edge of the text nicely fixed to the left edge of
> the monitor, but no consideration is given to us right-wingers.

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