Re: scroll-down and beginning-of-buffer

[August <fusionfive@comhem.se>]

On fre, 2005-02-11 at 09:45 -0500, John Russell wrote:
> Paul Raines <raines@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to ge the Page Up and Page Down keys to behave like
> > they do in almost every other editor out there.  Specifically, when
> > hitting Page Up repeatedly, you eventually end up with the curson
> > on the very first line of the file.  Instead, emails stops at some
> > random line below and refuses to go any further and just displays
> > "beginning of buffer" in the mini-buffer.
> >
> > I have tried definining the following function:
> >
> > (defun my-scroll-down (arg)
> >    "Same as scroll-down except really goes to beginning of file"
> >    (interactive "P")
> >    (if (not (call-interactively 'scroll-down))
> >        (call-interactively 'beginning-of-buffer)))
> >
> > Which works but has the horrible side effect of reseting the mark
> > each time it is used to the region scrolled.  How do I stop it
> > from doing that?  Or is the better way to get what I want?
> >
> 
> Google for pager.el.  It makes pg-up and pg-down make sense.  At if 
> page up and then page down the point returns to the same place.
> very nice package.

You can also try `pc-selection-mode' that makes several motions commands
from the keyboard behave in a more familiar manner.

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August