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Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?
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Kévin Le Gouguec |
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Re: Allowing point to be outside the window? |
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Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:39:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>> >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> >> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:07:57 +0800
>
>> >> I wonder what would be involved in allowing point to be outside a
>> >> window's visible area.
>
> Why would anybody want this? Why do you want this? This isn't a
> rhetorical question. Because other programs do it isn't a satisfactory
> reason.
I'll bite: because a user could want to peek a few screenfuls
ahead/behind, while keeping the cursor at a point of interest, where
they can come back with any point movement (e.g. arrow keys) or by just
typing in ("Greetings Mister… *scrolls back up* Mackenzie, RET RET I
trust this Sunday afternoon finds you well…").
Granted, IME I rarely want to check out an arbitrary "full screenfuls";
I usually want to check out the end of the current function (C-M-e) or
look for a pattern (C-s); if that takes me off-screen, C-u C-SPC brings
me right back where I was.
I wouldn't begrudge users who'd prefer the behaviour Po suggests,
though.
> I detest this behaviour, and that Emacs doesn't (currently) do it is a
> large part of the reason why I use Emacs. With these other programs I
> experience a constant background stress, that the careless or accidental
> depression of a key causes BANG!!! and the text I was reading
> disappears for ever, being overwritten by the text around point.
I don't see how (what I understand of) Po's proposition could lead to
such catastrophic text Armageddon. And in any case, Emacs's trusty undo
would surely come and save the day.
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, (continued)
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Po Lu, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Po Lu, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Alan Mackenzie, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eric S Fraga, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eric S Fraga, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, dick, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?,
Kévin Le Gouguec <=
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Kévin Le Gouguec, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Eric S Fraga, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Kévin Le Gouguec, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/11/28
- Re: Allowing point to be outside the window?, Po Lu, 2021/11/28