From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: could mark-paragraph scroll the window? Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:18:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87aajokziu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294125548 29341 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2011 07:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 07:19:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 08:19:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1Ae-0005ZE-0g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:19:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa1Ad-0002aC-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58829 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa1AH-0002ZQ-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1AG-00060Z-Cb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38409) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1AG-000609-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:18:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1AD-0005Hn-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:18:37 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:18:37 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:18:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <87aajokziu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78154 Archived-At: On 12/29/10 3:03 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Is there any chance that mark-paragraph (which marks consecutive > paragraphs when used repeatedly) could scroll the window once the > marking extends below the visible area? I find this command very useful, > but not being able to see where it's going is very limiting. > > Could I make a local version that does what I want? Perhaps something like this: (defadvice mark-paragraph (after region-end-visible activate) "When called interactively, temporarily display the end of the marked region if it is not visible in the selected window." (when (and (called-interactively-p 'any) ;; (eq this-command last-command) (not (pos-visible-in-window-p (region-end)))) (exchange-point-and-mark) (sit-for 1) (exchange-point-and-mark))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA