Re: "Pager" page-up and -down, why not merge?

[Adrian Robert <arobert@interstitiality.net>]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Richard M Stallman wrote:

>    seem to be an improvement over the existing definitions of scroll- 
> down
>    and scroll-up in emacs.  In particular, hitting sequences like  
> [next]
>    or Ctrl-v followed by [previous] or M-v leaves point in the same
>    place, which is very calming.
>
> That in itself is a good thing, but ISTR that the simple
> implementations of this had bad effects in other cases.
> To do the job right requires something much more complex
> which people usually don't bother trying to do.

If anyone who uses Emacs.app or could try out the elisp I posted could  
provide specifics on such misbehavior, that would be great.  I did  
improve the implementations in a couple of respects after feedback  
from the Emacs.app user base, and complaints have died off.  ;-)