From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there equivalent C-l for columns?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:29:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k09ixls0.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: courier.0000000062A99683.00001B60@stw1.rcdrun.com
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> C-l is very handy, it may center my cursor or bring it to the top or
> bottom, however it works horizontally on text rows or lines.
>
> I have file with long lines which I edit without wrapping and it
> becomes difficult when I am editing those characters in columns longer
> than the available window space in Emacs.
>
> So I am just assuming there could be some solution for long lines to
> bring the focus into window easier, similar to C-l
There are scroll commands that scroll horizontally, but such a horizontal
recenter sounds very useful.
Seems it already has been invented: `w3m-horizontal-recenter' in w3m and
`gnus-horizontal-recenter' in Gnus. The w3m command seems to work fine,
the Gnus command doesn't do anything for me.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-15 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-15 8:21 Is there equivalent C-l for columns? Jean Louis
2022-06-15 9:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 10:29 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-06-15 11:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-15 11:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 11:43 ` Robert Pluim
2022-06-15 11:22 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-15 11:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-15 11:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-15 11:29 ` Emanuel Berg
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