On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 at 9:23am, Matthew Winn wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:02:10AM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Yakov Lerner wrote: > > > How about adding the option 'scrollfix' [to the todo.txt], which > > > would fix the cursor on fixed line, in percantage 0-100. > > > Value ':set scrollfix=50' would work like ':set scrolloff=999'. > > > Value ':set scrollfix=67' would fix cursor 2/3 from top of screen. > > > Value ':set scrolloff=0' would keep cursor at top line of screen. > > > Value ':set scrolloff=100' would keep cursor at bottom line of screen. > > > > As you say, you can already do most of this by setting 'scrolloff' to > > a large number. > > > > If the cursor is really fixed at one position then using "j" would mean > > that the cursor remains in the same position and the text scrolls. > > That goes against what most people expect. I think it's not all that > > useful. > > I've had some situations where such a feature would be useful. > > A few weeks ago I was working with a large file containing many long SQL > statements mixed in amongst other stuff. I was searching for the start > of each statement, and it would have been very useful if I could have > arranged it so that each search resulted in the cursor appearing a couple > of lines from the the top of the screen with the SQL statement filling > the space below it. > > In this case I set scrolloff to 100 so the start of each SQL statement > was centred, but that gave me half a screen of context above the cursor > when only two or three lines would have done, and caused the ends of the > longest SQL statements to disappear below the bottom of the screen. > > I suppose there might be some way to map all the movement commands to > reposition the current line to a certain place on the screen, but at the > time I was doing all this it was quicker to scroll the text each time > than it would have been to write all the necessary mappings.
It might be easier to use the CursorMoved autocommand to reposition the line than making a bunch of autocommands. -- HTH, Hari > > > And we have too many options already... > > Too many options? Is that possible? > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
