From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jari.aalto@poboxes.com: Re: maybe disable scroll-left] Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:56:03 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094424995 10980 80.91.224.253 (5 Sep 2004 22:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 00:56:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C45vv-0004VS-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:56:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4613-00052n-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C460o-00052g-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C460m-00052T-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C460m-00052P-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C45va-0001IH-Cc; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id B413026281F; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:56:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:12:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26805 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26805 Richard Stallman 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 > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug > To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org > Cc: > Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:24:09 +0300 > Organization: Elisa Internet customer > > Dan Jacobson 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 http://www.cua.dk