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Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: change the behavior of the two scrolling commands


From: Brand Huntsman
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: change the behavior of the two scrolling commands (M-- and M-=)?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:56:19 -0600

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:15:17 +0100
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> > The only problem is the total_refresh() that flickers the screen
> > and messes up my eyes for several seconds. It is worse with default
> > titlebar color but is still quite noticeable with my dark gray
> > titlebar.  
> 
> What terminal do you use?  I can only get the screen to flicker when
> on a Linux console.  On an Xfce terminal, I can sometimes see a slight
> flicker on the bottom rows when I hold down ^L for a while.

rxvt-unicode


> > The center/top/bottom option is also nice.  
> 
> It sounds nice, but I've had the patch applied locally for a long
> time, and found that I never used it.  I ever only wanted to scroll
> the text up or down a bit, nothing more.

At first I couldn't figure out why anyone would want the cursor at bottom, but 
it makes sense for reading the entire page above cursor, and top makes sense 
for reading the entire page below cursor. I think they could be quite useful.


> > But it would basically rebind the up/down arrow keys to
> > do_scroll_up/down. And that would be useful for reading files and a
> > command line option to enable it with view mode would be nice.  
> 
> Hmmm...  Now I understand why scroll_up() and scroll_down() work the
> way they do: it would allow the cursor keys to work in a different
> way (when it were possible to rebind the cursor keys).  Hrm...  When
> changing the behavior of M-- and M-=, the current scroll_up/down
> behavior will disappear.

Disappear? What?




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