Re: Is there equivalent C-l for columns?

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> C-l is very handy, it may center my cursor or bring it to the top or
> bottom, however it works horizontally on text rows or lines.
>
> I have file with long lines which I edit without wrapping and it
> becomes difficult when I am editing those characters in columns longer
> than the available window space in Emacs.
>
> So I am just assuming there could be some solution for long lines to
> bring the focus into window easier, similar to C-l

There are scroll commands that scroll horizontally, but such a horizontal
recenter sounds very useful.

Seems it already has been invented: `w3m-horizontal-recenter' in w3m and
`gnus-horizontal-recenter' in Gnus.  The w3m command seems to work fine,
the Gnus command doesn't do anything for me.


Michael.