From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scroll-conservatively default
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:28:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m363zeolk6.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: umysryu5i.fsf@gnu.org
On 2007-12-04 04:13 +0000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Emacs should try to be consistent with the general accepted behavior
>> of other applications. And only try to be different after very
>> careful consideration.
>
> This would be a valid argument if we were discussing some new behavior
> that didn't exist before. But this particular behavior (scrolling
> when point goes outside the visible portion of the buffer) was in
> Emacs since day one, many years ago, when practically speaking there
> were no "other applications" to be compatible with. So I don't see
> how this argument applies here.
This mentality might eventually put Emacs to no more. A long time ago
human live on eating leafs, however we have evolved.
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 13:16 recenter-top-bottom Alan Mackenzie_JWA
2007-11-07 14:09 ` recenter-top-bottom Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-08 4:42 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-11-11 20:16 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-11 21:47 ` recenter-top-bottom Juri Linkov
2007-11-11 22:38 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-11 22:59 ` recenter-top-bottom Juri Linkov
2007-11-11 23:06 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-12 0:12 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-11 23:56 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-12 4:56 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-12 8:33 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-12 13:01 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-12 13:06 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-12 12:06 ` recenter-top-bottom Robert J. Chassell
2007-11-12 13:05 ` recenter-top-bottom Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 5:59 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-11-12 7:17 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-12 8:34 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-12 8:50 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-12 13:15 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-12 21:57 ` recenter-top-bottom Juri Linkov
2007-11-12 23:00 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-13 13:35 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-13 5:10 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-11-14 21:57 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-14 22:07 ` recenter-top-bottom Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-14 22:51 ` recenter-top-bottom Bastien
2007-11-14 23:51 ` recenter-top-bottom Juri Linkov
2007-11-15 0:23 ` recenter-top-bottom Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15 0:58 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-15 8:36 ` recenter-top-bottom Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-15 13:07 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-11-15 15:16 ` recenter-top-bottom Stefan Monnier
2007-11-15 15:52 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-11-16 4:29 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-11-16 18:51 ` recenter-top-bottom Stefan Monnier
2007-12-01 13:55 ` recenter-top-bottom Johan Bockgård
2007-12-01 14:28 ` recenter-top-bottom Leo
2007-12-01 15:48 ` recenter-top-bottom Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 18:33 ` recenter-top-bottom Leo
2007-12-01 21:07 ` recenter-top-bottom Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 23:41 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-12-01 16:22 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
2007-12-01 23:41 ` recenter-top-bottom Richard Stallman
2007-12-02 0:48 ` scroll-conservatively default (was: Re: recenter-top-bottom) Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-02 1:21 ` scroll-conservatively default Johan Bockgård
2007-12-02 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-02 4:52 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-03 21:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-04 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-04 7:25 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-04 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-05 4:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-05 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-05 4:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-04 9:28 ` Leo [this message]
2007-12-04 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-06 7:49 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-06 11:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-06 11:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-06 21:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-06 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-06 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 3:01 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-02 0:47 ` recenter-top-bottom Johan Bockgård
2007-12-02 4:53 ` recenter-top-bottom Drew Adams
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