Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Re: Scrolling screen lines, I knew, it's impossible.

Scroll by screen lines is a feature too, and I'm afraid VIM is the
only one that cannot turn it on.

Looks like, there's someone had persuaded joze 11 years ago, maybe we
need to do it to vimboss again?

Best.


On Jan 27, 6:05 am, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 26/01/11 17:38, oCameLo wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > There's so many questions and feature requests about use mouse to
> > scroll screen lines, but until now, it's still impossible.
>
> > Before starting this thread, I found two items in todo.txt.
>
> > 1st:
>
> > 7   Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y
> > scroll one
> >      screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with
> > the
> >      first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't
> > fit).
>
> > "7" is priority classification, it means "as soon as possible", it's
> > great. BUT, this item added to todo.txt by joze on Mon Jan 17 00:41:55
> > 2000 UTC. Yes, 11 years ago. (http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/
> > vim/vim/runtime/doc/todo.txt?r1=1.2&r2=1.3)
>
> > 2nd:
>
> > -   Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ?  Requires
> > the
> >      first line to be able to start halfway.
>
> > This one added by Bram Moolenaar on Jan 06, 2010. "-" means
> > "unclassified", and try :h extensions-improvements, you'll see this
> > feature will be added "when all bugs have been fixed". (https://
> > code.google.com/p/vim/source/diff?
> > spec=svn3259c3923c1ef2ec1783c828828c7f4e728c3f4b&r=de5a43c5eedc537e4dcdcdbd­deea496088063683&format=side&path=/
> > runtime/doc/todo.txt&old_path=/runtime/doc/
> > todo.txt&old=5232b9862f238a2a109f15527825e5cac1668a04)
>
> > I'm not sure what does "all bugs" mean, sounds like, never?...
>
> > Best regards.
>
> ATM the first character in a Vim (split-)window must be the first one of
> a line, except if the current line is larger than the window. I regard
> this as a feature rather than a bug; of course, YMMV.
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
> "Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'".

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