From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: A fringe indicator that shows the last/first line before scrolling Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:46:20 +0100 Message-ID: <47C6D74C.6010501@gmail.com> References: <8763w9mhdm.fsf@member.fsf.org> <64bfe3d50802280555l626d1dd4o9eb002f7d6c09681@mail.gmail.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1204213608 27804 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 15:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David O'Toole Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 16:47:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUkyW-00086v-8w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUkxz-0008FE-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUkxv-0008Ez-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUkxr-0008Ek-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUkxr-0008Eh-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUkxn-0000ih-TQ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59647 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JUkxk-0003UX-8E; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:46:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <64bfe3d50802280555l626d1dd4o9eb002f7d6c09681@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080227-0, 2008-02-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JUkxk-0003UX-8E. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JUkxk-0003UX-8E 11b6c86802183c0644e779de5d405a8f X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90726 Archived-At: David O'Toole wrote: > I like this idea, I tend to have the same problem. Me too. > I wonder if this could be implemented in plain Emacs Lisp? A post command hook? > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I scroll a large document with C-v (scroll-up) / M-v (scroll-down) >> I often have a hard time to spot the line where I was reading. I think >> it would be much easier to find that place, if there was some indicator >> in the fringe that shows the first/last line that was visible before the >> scrolling command was performed. >> >> If you scroll up (i.e. with C-v) it shows the last visible line before >> the scroll, if you scroll down (i.e. with M-v) it shows the first. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Bye, >> Tassilo >> >> >> > > >