From: lee <lee@yagibdah.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prevent scroll-lock-mode from scrolling?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:32:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87porcj5gy.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160620083344.GC18825@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:33:44 +0200")
<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:54:02AM +0200, lee wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> [...]
>
>> The position of the cursor /within the buffer/ is irrelevant for where
>> it is /on the screen/. It is relevant to me where the cursor is /on the
>> screen/ and /which buffer contents/ are around this screen position
>> (because I want to see them). It is pretty much irrelevant at which
>> position /within the buffer/ the contents I want to see are. I need
>> them displayed on the screen in a desirable way, and when programming,
>> the order and content of the lines I'm looking at are most of the time
>> much more important than it is where within the buffer they are. (It
>> doesn't matter whether a function 'foo' is at line 500 or at line 5000
>> as long as it is declared before being used (which isn't required, but
>> it is what I do.))
>
> The only sense I can make of that is: you don't want point to move
> relative to the window *and* you don't want window to move relative
> to buffer.
>
> I know you can't mean that. At least it doesn't make sense to me,
> because it would inhibit any movement. So I must be misundertanding
> you.
So you get the idea: I want the buffer contents to move relative to the
window and relative to the cursor without the cursor and without the
window moving. Suppose the window is the universe; the universe doesn't
move.
--
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
of 2016-03-18 on heimdali
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-20 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-17 1:12 prevent scroll-lock-mode from scrolling? lee
2016-06-17 1:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-17 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-17 6:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-17 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-18 1:19 ` what to require (was: Re: prevent scroll-lock-mode from scrolling?) Emanuel Berg
2016-06-17 22:47 ` prevent scroll-lock-mode from scrolling? lee
2016-06-17 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-17 23:10 ` lee
2016-06-18 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-19 23:54 ` lee
2016-06-20 8:33 ` tomas
2016-06-20 14:32 ` lee [this message]
2016-06-20 10:05 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-20 15:24 ` lee
2016-06-20 16:12 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-20 19:50 ` lee
2016-06-20 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-20 21:21 ` lee
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