From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 27932@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27932: 26.0.50; Feature request: prevent scroll commands from changing the buffer location of point
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:36:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ddkGN-0000cn-0D@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tw1oy54c.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:42:59 +0300)
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> It would require a complete rewrite of most of the display engine
> code. The Emacs display engine is based on the principle that point
> should always be visible, so whenever it becomes invisible, Emacs
> scrolls the window to make it visible again.
I don't think the change would be terribly hard. One would have to
find the places that insist on putting point on the screen, but I
think the changes required in each of those places would not be big.
If someone wants to try it, I encourage per to try it.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-04 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-03 13:34 bug#27932: 26.0.50; Feature request: prevent scroll commands from changing the buffer location of point Dani Moncayo
2017-08-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAH8Pv0gjYZZAfciNTaqKcj37C51dSdJOzD+4AZFFY2wjOu6Fgg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <83ini3yi49.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-04 6:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-08-04 21:36 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-08-05 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-05 20:19 ` Richard Stallman
2017-08-06 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-06 21:00 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-08-07 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-07 5:54 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-08-07 12:32 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-08-07 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-07 21:09 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-08-03 17:56 ` martin rudalics
2017-08-03 23:16 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-08-04 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 6:39 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-08-04 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-04 10:33 ` Tak Kunihiro
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