From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there equivalent C-l for columns? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:29:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87k09ixls0.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28966"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iflmIVaLM9rNs31XQE6JYN/bITo= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 12:30:55 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o1QIZ-0007Je-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:30:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1QIX-0005t9-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1QHB-0005t0-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1QH9-000116-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o1QH7-0005Qe-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:29:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137851 Archived-At: Jean Louis 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.