Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

[martin rudalics]

>> `scroll-in-place' means for them to keep the cursor at the same position
>> of the screen regardless of whether there's any text at that position.
>> In practice, this can be currently implemented only with the help of an
>> overlay as with Kim's cua-rect.el.
>
> "Currently" meaning with no changes on the C level, I presume?

Exactly.

>> Obviously, if we are able to not show the cursor (Emacs on Windows
>> currently lacks this capability IIUC) no overlay is needed.
>
> ??? Of course, we can hide the cursor on Windows.  Otherwise, how do
> we manage not displaying when auto-hscroll-mode is off and point is
> outside of the shown text?

Fine.  So let's make this available at the Lisp level.

martin, wondering why he still can't hide the mouse cursor on Windows