2008/8/6 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mostly because keyboard navigation is generally considered to act > directly on the blinker (Insertion Point, IP Mark, whatever), whereas > mouse navigation scrolling acts on the screen scrollbars which tend to > be a desktop GUI thing.
I am completely unfamiliar with that concept. I do not believe that KDE or Gnome make that distinction. Maybe it's a Windows thing. > I think that it would be handier to simply place a mark, by a keyboard > combination, that could easily be returned to. This i think may be more > useful than your request, for instances where you actually make an edit > elsewhere before returning. While that would be useful (and in fact, I believe that the Navigator handles bookmarks), it would not fulfill my [need|personalityQuirk]. My preference is to keep the cursor on the vertical center of the screen, more or less. So I would be scrolling up approximately N lines for every N lines I edit. > I read Brian Barkers reply before replying myself, and though it > answers your question, it made my head hurt :) > While in a strictly technical sense Brian did suggest a method that would allow the viewport to show a portion of the text not occupied by the cursor, it most certainly is not a solution to my concern. However, I can live with the cursor at the bottom of the screen, so it is not a critical concern. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
