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bug#30747: Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#30747: Emacs lacks a command to horizontally recenter |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 14:49:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Since lines are generally not all of the same width, such horizontal
> scrolling can only guarantee to center one line, and sometimes cannot
> center it at all (if it's narrower than the window). I wonder whether
> the OP indeed understands what he will get as result of implementing
> this feature.
The centring would be based on the current line, yes. But horizontal
centring is mostly useful when you have a display that's much wider than
your window width, which can happen i deeply nested threads in Gnus, for
instance.
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