Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: change the behavior of the two scrolling commands (M-- and M-=)?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 11-03-18 om 00:30 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> and must then move cursor back up to previous position in text,

Precisely.  That is what I would do regularly: three times M-- followed
by three times <Down>.  (I often want to scroll back up a little.)

Okay.  I need one more vote to clinch this.

> I also wanted to add a key that scrolls cursor to center of window.

I have a patch for that, posted a long while ago [1].  It has evolved
a bit since then, integrating it into the ^L (refresh) function so it
doesn't need a separate key.  I'll have to grab it off the old laptop
and update it for the current situation, and will repost.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg00006.html

> And/or a toggle mode that keeps cursor from changing lines in the window. You
>  press enter or down arrow and the text scrolls to keep cursor on same line in
>  window. This would be better than a key to center the view because it always
>  keeps the view centered on any line you choose, which doesn't need to be the
>  middle of the window. I haven't written a patch yet to see if it would be 
> annoying, but it sounds good in theory.

At my uni they had an editor that worked like that: the cursor was
always on the center line of the screen.  It worked.  But it also
meant that you could never have a full page of preceding text in
view while adding more on the bottom line.  Your proposed mechanism
would allow that.  Sounds interesting, but...

Benno

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