From: volodyan <volodyan@gmail.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scroll preserving point position - other meaning
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:10:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21491801.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090115231432.GA13160@muc.de>
I was trying to use Emacs in "browser mode": while editing keystrokes are
very convenient, but when reading code I like to use a mouse, highlight a
piece of code selecting it and then use scroll bar to read it and around.
But I will learn alternative ways. Still I tried to find the discussion on
this on DEV list and couldn't. I still find it hard to believe that adding a
couple of global variables cannot make the cursor disappear when it touches
the edge of the window and then reappear on entry. (I've never seen Emacs
code before :-)
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I am using Emacs with X and struggling to do the following. How can I
>> preserve point's position while scrolling IN TEXT?
>
> You can't. This is one of the few things, possibly the only thing, that
> you can't configure in Emacs. "Point" (that's the cursor position) is
> constrained to be on the screen; lots of code depends on this.
>
> The next question is what do you _really_ want to do? There are likely
> other things ways you can achieve this, whatever it is, in Emacs.
>
>
>> In all other graphical editors scrolling with a mouse doesn't move
>> point/unselects region. I just "upgraded" to Emacs from Eclipse and I
>> guess there is a way to get such behavior in Emacs. How?
>
> Emacs is primarily a text editor. :-) It works equally well on a
> terminal without a mouse, say over a comms line. Only some actions can
> be done conveniently with the mouse. I'd recommend you to learn some
> key sequences (such as the ones above) too. Try C-M-a and C-M-e
> sometime. :-)
>
>> Thanks for your help
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 3:10 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
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 [this message]
[not found] <mailman.4926.1232027586.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-15 15:25 ` Xah Lee
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