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bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:38:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> Why should they put the last line (whitespace or not) at the _top_ of the
> window, instead of the bottom of the window?
That's the wrong question. The right question could be something like:
- Why should Emacs (or any other application ofr that matter) prevent
you from displaying the last line anywhere else than the bottom of the
window, what would be gained from it?
- Why does Emacs only let you display the first line of the buffer at
the top of the window? [well, actually, if you play enough with
overlays and before-strings you could move the first line further
down, but that's cheating]
- Why hasn't anybody written a patch (after all these years of acrymony)
so that Emacs can mimick the brain-dead dogmatic behavior of most
other GUI apps's drag scroll?
> Do you know of a use case for that,
Of course: move the last line so it sits right next to some other line
in some other window. I often do such things to compare two windows
line-by-line (it doesn't always involve the last line of one of the two
buffers, but sometimes does).
> which might justify that as the standard behavior?
The real justification is that it's difficult to implement and the
benefits are dubious.
Stefan
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Drew Adams, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Drew Adams, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Drew Adams, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Drew Adams, 2009/06/15
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/06/16
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling, Drew Adams, 2009/06/16
- bug#3576: 23.0.94; scroll bar scrolls past eob - keeps scrolling,
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