Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Re: Scrolling Long Lines Revisited. Again.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:18 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett@gmail.com> wrote:
> James Cole wrote:
>>> This seems like a perennial topic[1], that regularly gets
>>> dismissed --
>>> vertically scrolling by "screen lines" vs. "real lines".
>>
>> I feel the same way.
>
> The problem is that the people who want scrolling fixed to make
> Vim usable with long lines are not the same as the few people
> who are capable of working out what changes would be required
> to the source.

What is the rationale for the current behaviour? Does anybody find
this way of scrolling long lines useful? Why? (asking only about how
the buffer moves, not how the cursor moves)

If somebody writes a patch to fix this, should they add a new option
for it, or make it part of the 'wrap' option?


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