Re: next-line + recenter (- redraw frame)?

[David Combs]

In article <19aniuq151di2$.1qyujo75j1w3b$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Peter Tury  <tury.peter@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:20:55 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> Please compare it to scroll-down-in-place in lisp/term/sun.el by Jeff  
>> Peck!
>> 
>> (defun scroll-down-in-place (n)
>>    (interactive "p")
>>    (previous-line n)
>>    (scroll-down n))
>> 
>> (defun scroll-up-in-place (n)
>>    (interactive "p")
>>    (next-line n)
>>    (scroll-up n))
>

Never even knew it was there, sun.el.


Questions:

. What makes sun.el relevant to (only?) Sun computers, or Solaris?

. Is this sun.el so well liked that just about *anyone* running
   emacs on a Sun should put a load-file of it in their .emacs?

Thanks,

David