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From: | Anders Lindgren |
Subject: | bug#23347: 25.0.92; Follow mode scrolling broken -- scrolls only one page |
Date: | Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:37:57 +0200 |
> The normal `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command' (typically bound
> to C-v and M-v) can scroll a page at a time, there is no need for a Follow
> mode-specific command for that, as the normal Follow mode machinery can
> reposition the other windows. (The only difference is that when using C-v
> the original window is still selected, whereas with the new
> follow-scroll-up command the windows where the original point ends up is
> selected.)
Indeed. This is a difference important enough to have a command in
follow.el which keeps point at the same buffer position it started with.
> A cleaner solution would be to define two sets of functions, e.g.
> follow-scroll-up-one-page.
OK. I'm happy enought with that.
I'm not sure that's a good name, though - the "page" bit could easily
get confused with the region in a buffer between two ^L characters.
Maybe follow-scroll-up-window would be better. What do you think?
> Many users might want to use both kind of scrolling (I use both C-v
> and C-c . C-v several time every day, depending on how I would like to
> scroll the display). With two sets of functions it's easier to do
> this. (Also, it's easier to write documentation for a function
> designed to do one thing.)
For me, C-c . C-v is too tedious to type, so I've just bound <PageUp>
and <PageDown> to `follow-scroll-down/up'. I use them many times per
day.
Another possibility would be to use a C-u prefix argument to indicate N
windows as opposed to 1. No, I don't think that's a good idea, either.
Anyway, here is what I think we can agree on:
1. `follow-scroll-up/down' should scroll by N windows.
2. There need to be commands in follow.el that scroll by 1 window as is
done by the current `follow-scroll-up/down'. You have suggested the
name `follow-scroll-up/down-one-page'. I have countered with
`follow-scroll-up/down-window'.
If we can agree, I'm willing to amend follow.el. I think it's probably
too late for this fix to make it into Emacs 25.1, though.
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