Subject: Re: Pre-scroll
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 08:03:07 CST
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Remembering a feature of an old programmers editor (TurboText for Amiga), I
> came to think "This is something for AbiWord".
>
> In this editor you could set the number of lines from top/bottom border the
> cursor started to scroll the text. This was really good since it kept a
> larger context visible of what you were editing. I.e. if you set pre-scroll
> to 4, it would never let the cursor closer to the border than four lines,
> except for the border-conditions of BOD/EOD.
>
Gee Mike, tried emacs recently? VC doesn't do this?
> What do you think, anything for AW?
>
I like this in Emacs and I'd like it in Abi. Where in the preferences do
you think it should go? Of course the number 4 would be a changable
default.
Cheers
Martin
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