From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: vb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: current directory Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:52:48 -0700 Message-ID: <200610190952.48178.help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> References: <87u020jnvr.fsf@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161276821 22585 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2006 16:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 19 18:53:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gab8z-0004C5-SI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:53:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gab8y-0005C3-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gab8e-00052s-8R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gab8a-0004n1-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gab8Z-0004lx-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.160.230.40] (helo=mout.perfora.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gab8Y-0006yd-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.17.149.13] (helo=dhcp-10-64-129-2.riverstonenet.com) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrelayus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKp2t-1Gab8V1C1Q-0000sW; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:52 -0400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <87u020jnvr.fsf@mail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:105503e63a43ed9a8b379992658ba53b 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:38138 Archived-At: On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:01, Fang lun gang wrote: > > Maybe in your case, emacs did to much. But emacs can only choose a policy > that preferred by most people in most cases. > > I guess you would appreciate almost everything it does for you if you come > to understand emacs. At least I do. well, this is becoming a philosophical issue, but I'll comment on it anyways: as soon as somebody gets to decide what is good for other people, the other people are in trouble. Again, I am all for emacs doing whatever whoever thinks is good. But let those who feel otherwise do what they want - otherwise this is like a communist society: driving people to their happiness with an iron fist. BTW, there is another annoying feature which I don't know how to deal with - maybe there is a way around it: say I am editing a file which is longer than a few screenfulls. I hit the 'page up' key a few times, and then hit the 'page down' key the same number of times. I get back the screen there was originally, but the cursor now is in the first line, not where it was before these page scrolls. Is there any way to preserve the cursor position? Again, pretty much any other editor I dealt with preserves the position in this situation... cheers, /vb