From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scroll preserving point position - other meaning
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:38:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232037604.197929@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4942.1232033132.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, volodyan <volodyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am using Emacs with X and struggling to do the following. How can I
>> preserve point's position while scrolling IN TEXT? I spent hours roaming
>> through Internet/searched the forum, but everyone seems to be interested in
>> preserving point's position on screen. I want to be able to use scroll bar
>> with a mouse or PageUp/Down to look something up and then return, but the
>> point insists on staying on screen.
>
> I think that can't be done. If I remember correctly this was discussed
> on Emacs devel a while ago.
I think one could write something like a modal scrolling,
like in this pseudo elisp.
(defun scroll-modal-pre-command-hook ()
"Pseudocode!"
(when (eq this-command 'scroll-bar-command)
(save-window-excursion
(while (scroll-bar-command-p)
(apply 'scroll-command)
(read-event)))))
I don't know if that's what eveybody has in mind here.
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 7:29 Scroll preserving point position - other meaning volodyan
2009-01-15 15:25 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.4942.1232033132.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-15 16:38 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2009-01-15 21:27 ` volodyan
2009-01-15 21:55 ` tyler
2009-01-15 23:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-01-16 3:10 ` volodyan
[not found] <mailman.4926.1232027586.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-15 15:25 ` Xah Lee
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