Re: "Book-like" text rendering

[William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>]

Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 09/25/2013 06:00 PM, David Engster wrote:
>
>> Have a look at `follow-mode'.
>
> 0) Yes, this is quite similar (although cursor movement is not quite similar
>    to what human eye does while reading the book).
>
> 1) The name looks totally misleading; I suspected that such a feature was
>    implemented long time ago, but it didn't come to my mind to look around
>    `follow' keyword. IMHO the name should include the word `text' at least.
>
> 2) (Sorry for the huge image) This happens when I tried to search for
>    `Lisp_Object' string: matches are highlighted in left window, but not
>    in the right one.  Isn't it a bug?
>

3) Perhaps it can also be made more like reading a book.  e.g, when C-v, i
would expect it scroll up 2 pages:
| page 1 | page 2 |  => | page 3 | page 4 |

But currently it gives you:
| page 2 | page 3 |

which sounds odd.

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William

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