From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David O'Toole" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: A fringe indicator that shows the last/first line before scrolling Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:55:27 -0500 Message-ID: <64bfe3d50802280555l626d1dd4o9eb002f7d6c09681@mail.gmail.com> References: <8763w9mhdm.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204207009 1535 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 13:56:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:56:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 14:57:15 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 1JUjG1-0005QD-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUjFV-0002p2-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUjEZ-0002Yi-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUjEU-0002UM-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUjEU-0002UA-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUjET-0006GW-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:55:33 -0500 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4530040wah.10 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=xjqt0eCh49CjnfHxX2jOa7iQl0sb8ckDlTHdTQ0dSsU=; b=egZIiwDnfrC1lhVHm7wZzWUjgMQZIiwwNcx921vQn7NrrFaLL58E3ZfSbdXzj4Qit8v2SJVSuvLrWudkD2CT3A1mubDZQ55cU3C2eswfNLfx0t89Sl4lpNgp+6eueYk8Hho6HwXWM1FQ9DCrlK+xotGJfXZC9gaFShjOz2dxsoE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=e7PuBmztLayK8HbfEcb56TwUEwA6oe6Rv/BVA550zfEkvhMUrpny4RXu273bnkH9L4vnGgAFzZoiSBDYbznSnlUcg2YTKxBam3riWtPucDEpHip77GQSOONtQbsXU/gBvtQhEEwsyL/bRMWACWqKq7XlmthySIN7gT9m3HA9dYo= Original-Received: by 10.114.178.1 with SMTP id a1mr9332437waf.135.1204206927289; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.114.167.16 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:55:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8763w9mhdm.fsf@member.fsf.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3b9db98a0077f95e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:90722 Archived-At: I like this idea, I tend to have the same problem. I wonder if this could be implemented in plain Emacs Lisp? 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 > > >