From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alt-v behavior near beginning of buffer Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:00:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <45B80425.2070209@gatech.edu> <45B8D0F0.2030408@gatech.edu> <45B8D36B.8050102@gatech.edu> <45B94A73.1090603@gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170136894 17504 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 06:01:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:01:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 07:01:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBm3d-00085O-Er for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:01:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBm3d-0008Nn-1U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBm3N-0008Ni-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBm3K-0008NW-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBm3K-0008NS-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HBm3K-0008TC-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:01:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HBm3G-0003dG-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:01:06 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:01:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45B94A73.1090603@gatech.edu> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40748 Archived-At: Matthew Flaschen wrote: > I wanted it to go to the beginning of the line either way, so I changed > it to: > > (defun power-bottom () > "Scrolls down a screen if possible, or goes to the bottom of the buffer" > (interactive) > (if (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-max)) > ((lambda() > (goto-char (point-max)) > (beginning-of-line))) > (scroll-up))) > > That lambda syntax took me a while to grasp. Is there any easier way to > do this, short of creating a function just for the lambda? Of course: (progn (goto-char (point-max)) (beginning-of-line)) A good Emacs Lisp exercise would be to allow your new command to accept a prefix argument just like scroll-up does, and pass it to scroll-up. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA