Re: more helpful scrolling
On 13 Oct 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull stated:
redirected to xemacs-beta, this needs more discussion.
>>>>> "anthony" == anthony <anthony(a)magix.com.sg> writes:
anthony> But it's still possible to "move further", since the
anthony> point is still in the centre of the screen. So with this
anthony> patch, point is then moved to the {start,end} of the
anthony> buffer. Subsequent attempts to scroll
anthony> maybe_signal_error_1 as before.
This isn't unreasonable, though. If it were switchable by a variable
I would be inclined to approve it. I'd probably push for your
preference to be the default in the beta tree as that's the best way
to get feedback; we can revert to current later if more people hate it
than like it.
scroll-in-place is supposed to do exactly this, but it doesn't always
work; sometimes you just get a {beginning,end}-of-buffer error. I vote
for fixing scroll-in-place, myself.
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