Re: How to improve the pager

[projorpheon ccf]

:-( not in the right list?


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 16:35:06 +0200, projorpheon ccf
<projorpheon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Are there anyone who is using the pager.el which is so great a fix to emacs
> page up/down?
> 
> But one defect is that:
> if you scrolled down to the last page of the text and expected the
> cursor to go to the end of the file, pager just don't respond as there
> is not enough lines to scroll down one whole page?
> Any idea to modify the pager.el to make it work as normal emacs behavior?
> Thanks.
> 
> ;;; pager.el --- windows-scroll commands
> ;;; Version 2.0 - 97-10-06
> ;;; Copyright (C) 1992-1997 Mikael Sj鰀in (mic@docs.uu.se)
> ;;;
> ;;; Author: Mikael Sj鰀in  --  mic@docs.uu.se
> ;;;
> ;;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.
> ;;; You may however redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
> GNU
> ;;; General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; 
> either
> ;;; version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> ;;;
> ;;; pager.el is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> ;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
> ;;; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;;; Description:
> ;;;
> ;;; pager.el defines alternative commands to the Emacs builtins: scroll-down
> ;;; and scroll-up.  It also contains commands to scroll the screen one row at
> ;;; the time.
> ;;;
> ;;; The Emacs builtins for scrolling are worthless!  The commands in pager.el
> ;;; works the way the builtins should have done from the beginning.  For
> ;;; instance, doing a pg-up followed by a pg-down (when using pager.el) will
> ;;; return point to the original place.
> ;;;
> ;;; This file has been tested under Emacs 19.34 and 20.2 but I belive it 
> should
> ;;; work on most Emacs versions and Emacs derivatives.
> ;;;
> ;;; This file can be obtained from http://www.docs.uu.se/~mic/emacs.html
> 
> RD,
> Jorpheon
>