Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: assorted questions Message-ID: <59@titania.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 4 Oct 88 09:03:06 GMT References: <1423.590955666@pizza> <38609@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 24 In article <38609@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: | In article <1423.590955666@pizza> jr@bbn.com writes: | | | 2) ... Wouldn't it make a bit more sense [if scroll-{up,down} at the | | | limit of the file went] to the bottom (top) of the file? | | | | ... scroll-{up,down} move the window. point moves as a side effect, since | | the semantics of windows require that point stay inside. | | Not in my mind. I think of M-v as "move cursor up one pages worth" and I | expect it to try no matter where the window is. Why should ^P affect the | cursor and M-v affect the scroll region? But doesn't the fact that ESC 4 M-v leaves point where it is, just moving the window by four lines, show that jr's interpretation is correct ? ^P moves point, and M-v moves the window because they're different commands, otherwise there would be no difference between ESC 4 ^P and ESC 4 M-v. Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv PHONE: +44 203 523037 JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick ARPA: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England