From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: volodyan <volodyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scroll preserving point position - other meaning
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:25:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50901150725h29225486mb6a333e1d47d8c89@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21472671.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, volodyan <volodyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am using Emacs with X and struggling to do the following. How can I
> preserve point's position while scrolling IN TEXT? I spent hours roaming
> through Internet/searched the forum, but everyone seems to be interested in
> preserving point's position on screen. I want to be able to use scroll bar
> with a mouse or PageUp/Down to look something up and then return, but the
> point insists on staying on screen.
I think that can't be done. If I remember correctly this was discussed
on Emacs devel a while ago.
What you can do is open a new window and do what you want there.
> Another, I think related issue, if I want to find a matching parentheses, I
> click on one and the region between the two is selected. If this region fits
> the screen - fine. But if not, when I try scrolling using a mouse to find
> another end of the region, the region gets unselected. In all other
> graphical editors scrolling with a mouse doesn't move point/unselects
> region. I just "upgraded" to Emacs from Eclipse and I guess there is a way
> to get such behavior in Emacs. How?
I think this was also discussed. You may want to try do ask this on
Emacs developers list.
> Thanks for your help
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>
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 7:29 Scroll preserving point position - other meaning volodyan
2009-01-15 15:25 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.4942.1232033132.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-15 16:38 ` Andreas Politz
2009-01-15 21:27 ` volodyan
2009-01-15 21:55 ` tyler
2009-01-15 23:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-01-16 3:10 ` volodyan
[not found] <mailman.4926.1232027586.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-15 15:25 ` Xah Lee
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